South Tyrol

South Tyrol is an autonomous province in northern Italy. It is one of the independent provinces that make up the independent area of Trentino-Alto Adige/Sudtirol. Its professional trilingual denomination is Autonome Provinz Bozen Südtirol in German, Provincia autonoma di Bolzano Alto Adige in Italian and Provinzia autonoma de Bulsan – Südtirol in Ladin, reflecting the 3 predominant language groups to which its population belongs.

The province is the northernmost of Italy, the second one largest, with an area of 7,400 rectangular kilometres and has a total population of 528,641 inhabitants as of 2018. Its capital and largest town is Bolzano. The Atlas Tyrolensis, showing the whole County of Tyrol, published in Vienna. 1774 According to 2014 statistics based at the 2011 census, 62.3per cent of the population speaks German; 23.4per cent of the populace speaks Italian, mainly in and across the two biggest towns; 4.1per cent speaks Ladin, a Rhaeto-Romance language; 10.2per cent of the populace speaks another language as first language.

The province is granted a widespread degree of self-authorities, inclusive of a huge range of one-of-a-kind legislative and executive powers and a monetary regime that allows it to maintain a huge a part of maximum levied taxes, even as final a net contributor to the national finances. As of 2016, South Tyrol is the wealthiest province in Italy and among the wealthiest within the European Union.