The Aosta Valley (Italian: Valle d'Aosta, French: Vallée-d'Aoste or Val-d'Aoste, Franco-Provençal: Val d'Outa) is a mountainous Region in north-western Italy. It is bordered by France to the west, Switzerland to the north and the region of Piedmont to the south and east.
With an area of 3,263 km² and a population of about 120,000, it is the smallest, least populous, and least densely populated region of Italy. It is the only Italian region which has no provinces (provincial administrative functions are provided by the regional government, the province being dissolved in 1945.), and is divided into 74 comunes (Italian: comuni); see: Comunes of the Aosta Valley.
Some communes, concentrated in the valley bottomlands, are Francophone, in the Lys Valley is concentrated a Walser German speaking minority. The regional capital is Aosta.
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