| Piegaro | ||
|---|---|---|
| Comune | ||
| Comune di Piegaro | ||
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  Piegaro Location of Piegaro in Italy | ||
| Coordinates: 42°58′N12°5′E / 42.967°N 12.083°E | ||
| Country | Italy | |
| Region | Umbria | |
| Province | Perugia (PG) | |
| Frazioni | Acquaiola Gratiano, Castiglion Fosco, Cibottola, Colle Baldo, Gaiche, Greppolischieto, Ierna Vignaie, Macereto, Oro, Pietrafitta, Pratalenza | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Andrea Caporali | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 99.0 km2 (38.2 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 356 m (1,168 ft) | |
| Population (2007) | ||
| • Total | 3,718 | |
| • Density | 38/km2 (97/sq mi) | |
| Demonym(s) | Piegaresi | |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | |
| Postal code | 06066 | |
| Dialing code | 075 | |
| Website | Official website | |
Piegaro is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Perugia in the Italian region Umbria, located about 30 km southwest of Perugia. Piegaro borders the following municipalities: Città della Pieve, Marsciano, Montegabbione, Monteleone d'Orvieto, Paciano, Panicale, Perugia, San Venanzo.
The comune is a basic administrative division in Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality.
The Province of Perugia is the larger of the two provinces in the Umbria region of Italy, comprising two-thirds of both the area and population of the region. Its capital is the city of Perugia. The province covered all of Umbria until 1927, when the province of Terni was carved out of its southern third. The province of Perugia has an area of 6,334 km² covering two-thirds of Umbria, and a total population of about 660,000. There are 59 comunes in the province. The province has numerous tourist attractions, especially artistic and historical ones, and is home to the Lake Trasimeno, the largest lake of Central Italy. It historically the ancestral origin of the Umbri, while later it was a Roman province and then part of the Papal States until the late 19th century.
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a European country consisting of a peninsula delimited by the Italian Alps and surrounded by several islands. Located in the middle of the Mediterranean sea and traversed along its length by the Apennines, Italy has a largely temperate seasonal climate. The country covers an area of 301,340 km2 (116,350 sq mi) and shares open land borders with France, Slovenia, Austria, Switzerland and the enclaved microstates of Vatican City and San Marino. Italy has a territorial exclave in Switzerland (Campione) and a maritime exclave in the Tunisian sea (Lampedusa). With around 60 million inhabitants, Italy is the fourth-most populous member state of the European Union.
