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.