The
Province of Milan was a
province in the
Lombardy region,
Italy. Its capital was the city of
Milan. The provincial territory was highly urbanized, resulting in the third highest population density among the Italian provinces with more than 2,000 inhabitants/km
2, just behind the provinces of
Naples and the bordering
Monza e Brianza, created in 2004 splitting the north-eastern part from the province of Milan itself. On January 1, 2015 it was replaced by the
Metropolitan City of Milan.