ITALIAN REGION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Italy is divided into 20 regions for administrative purposes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("Italian region" is a kind of...):

province; state (the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation)

Instance hyponyms:

Venetia; Veneto; Venezia-Euganea (a region of northeastern Italy on the Adriatic)

Valle D'Aosta (a region in northwestern Italy)

Umbria (a mountainous region in central Italy)

Trentino-Alto Adige (a region of northeastern Italy bordering Austria)

Toscana; Tuscany (a region in central Italy)

Sicilia; Sicily (the Italian region on the island of Sicily)

Sardegna; Sardinia (the Italian region on the island of Sardinia; the kingdom of Sardinia was the nucleus for uniting Italy during the 19th century)

Apulia; Puglia (a region in southeastern Italy on the Adriatic)

Piedmont; Piemonte (the region of northwestern Italy; includes the Po valley)

Molise (a region of south central Italy)

Marche; Marches (a region in central Italy)

Lombardia; Lombardy (a region of north central Italy bordering Switzerland)

Liguria (region of northwestern Italy on the Ligurian Sea)

Latium; Lazio (an ancient region of west central Italy (southeast of Rome) on the Tyrrhenian Sea)

Friuli-Venezia Giulia (a region in northeastern Italy)

Emilia-Romagna (a region of north central Italy on the Adriatic)

Campania (a region of southwestern Italy on the Tyrrhenian Sea including the islands of Capri and Ischia)

Calabria (a region of southern Italy (forming the toe of the Italian 'boot'))

Basilicata; Lucania (a region of southern Italy (forming the instep of the Italian 'boot'))

Abruzzi; Abruzzi e Molise (a mountainous region of central Italy on the Adriatic)