Province of Fermo

The Province of Fermo () is a province in the Marche region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Fermo.
It is a province since 2004 with parts of the province of Ascoli Piceno but it was in 2009 when it became an active province.
Geography.
Fermo has an area of , the smallest province of the Marche region. The province is surrounded, by land, by two provinces of Marcheː the province of Macerata in the north and west and the province of Ascoli Piceno in the south; to the east is the Adriatic Sea on the east.
The main rivers in the province, from north to south, are (all of them flow to the east into tfe Adriatic Sea but Ete Morto)ː
The highest mountain in the province is "Monte Priora",() in the Apennines; it is high.
Population.
There are 174,849 persons living in the province (1 January 2017), for a population density of inhabitants/km².
Evolution of the population
Municipalities.
There are 40 municipalities (or "comuni") in the province; they are:
The largest "comune" is Fermo, with and the smallest is Pedaso, with . The "comune" with fewest people living in it is Smerillo with 366 inhabitants.
Main "comuni".
The following table shows the 10 "comuni" with more inhabitants with their population, and their area and altitude.