Last update : 8-JAN-2000

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(name comes from latin Padus, the Po River)

Area : 161 285 kmē
(Piemonte : 25 399 ; Aosta : 3262 ; Liguria : 5416 ; Lombardia : 23851 ; Trentino-Südtirol : 13613 ; Veneto : 18634 ; Friul-Venezia-Giulia : 7845 ; Emilia-Romagna : 22123 ; Toscana : 22992 ; Umbria : 8456 ; Marche : 9694)

Population : 31 502 000 inhabitants
(Piemonte : 4 479 000; Aosta : 112 000; Liguria : 1 808 000; Lombardia : 8 892 000; Trentino-Südtirol : 873 000; Veneto : 4 345 000; Friul-Venezia-Giulia : 1 234 000; Emilia-Romagna : 3 958 000; Toscana : 3 581 000; Umbria : 808 000; Marche : 1 412 000)

Languages :
- (official) Italian; German (Süd Tirol); French (Val d'Aoste); Slovene (Friul)
- (on the way to be official, in the regions) Bavarian, Emilian-Romagnan, Franco-Provençal (Val d'Aoste), Friulian, Ladin (Trentino & Südtirol), Ligurian, Lombard, Piemontese, Occitan (Piemonte), Venetian

National anthem : Va' Pensiero
Capital : Venezia (for the government) and in the Castle of Chignolo Po (Pavia) there is the Parliament (according to Lega Nord).
Political status : annexed to Italy in 1860s

Site of Emilia-Romagna
Site of Friuli-Venezia-Giulia
Site of Liguria
Site of Lombradia
Site of Marche
Site of Piemonte
Site of Toscana
Site of Trentino-Süd-Tirol
Site of Umbria
Site of Veneto

All the national Padanian sites
Pages of the national secretariats of Lega Nord

Independentist movement : Lega Nord Northern League

Regionalist movement : Union Valdôtaine, Südtiroler Volkspartei, PATT (Trentino), Union für SüdTirol

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