---
id: "it_istat_province_code"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["geo", "government"]
country: ["IT"]
langs: ["it"]
quality: 90
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/it_istat_province_code"
---

# Italian ISTAT province code (`it_istat_province_code`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Three-digit code of an Italian province, metropolitan city or free municipal consortium in the ISTAT statistical codes, as in 001 for Torino, 015 for Milano and 058 for Roma; the historical code (codice storico) keeps the code of the former province. The two-letter abbreviation (sigla, TO) is it_province_code.

- Parent datatype: `category`
- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Geographic identifiers (geo), Government related (government)
- Countries: Italy (IT)
- Languages: Italian (it)
- Classification: categorical

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^\d{3}$
```

## Examples

- `001` — Torino
- `004` — Cuneo
- `015` — Milano
- `058` — Roma
- `TO` (invalid example) — Sigla: it_province_code

## Metacrafter rules

1 rules: 1 match the field name, 0 match values.

- `itistatprovincebyfield` (field, `it/it_geo.yaml`)

## Supported by tools

- `metacrafter`

## Translations

- it: Codice ISTAT della provincia

## Sources

- doc: <https://www.istat.it/classificazione/codici-dei-comuni-delle-province-e-delle-regioni/>

## Quality

Score 90/100. Missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...).

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/it_istat_province_code.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/IT/geo/it_istat_province_code.yaml>