ADMIN DIVISION AND CALL DISTRICTS OF ITALY
Prefixes.......Region.................Provinces....................... ====================================================================== I,IK,IZ1.......Piemonte...............AL,AT,BI,CN,NO,VB,VC,TO I,IK,IZ1.......Liguria................GE,IM,SP,SV IX1............Vallée d'Aoste/Aosta...AO I,IK2,IZ2......Lombardia..............BG,BS,CO,CR,LC,LO,MB,MN,MI,PV,SO,VA I,IK,IZ3.......Veneto.................BL,PD,VE,RO,TV,VR,VI IN3............Südtirol/Alto Adige....BZ IN3............Trentino...............TN IV3............Friuli.................PN,UD IV3............Venezia.Giulia.........GO,TS I,IK,IZ4.......Emilia.................BO,FE,MO,PC,PR,RE I,IK,IZ4.......Romagna................FC,RA,RN I,IK,IZ5.......Toscana................AR,FI,GR,LI,LU,MS,PI,PO,PT,SI I,IK,IZ6.......Marche.................AN,AP,FM,MC,PU I,IK,IZ6.......Abruzzo................CH,AQ,PE,TE I,IK,IZ7.......Puglia.................BA,BT,BR,FG,LE,TA I,IK,IZ7.......Basilicata.............MT I,IK,IZ8.......Basilicata.............PZ I,IK,IZ8.......Campania...............AV,BN,CE,NA,SA I,IK,IZ8.......Calabria...............CZ,CS,KR,RC.VV I,IK,IZ8.......Molise.................CB,IS I,IK,IZ0.......Lazio..................FR,RM,LT,RI,VT I,IK,IZ0.......Umbria.................PG,TR IT9............Sicilia................AG,CL,CT,EN,ME,PA,RG,SR,TP IS0............Sardegna...............CA,CI,MD,NU,OG,OR,OT,SS
The prefix of no-code licenses used to be IW, however, since late 2005, these stations may use HF and CW, too. Some swapped their calls against IZ-calls, most kept their IWs. Some province codes were changed in 1999: the former PS is now PU and the former FO is now FC. Since then several provinces have been added. The number of provinces since 2010 is 110. If you are hunting provinces for the WAIP award visit www.ari.it for details and resources.
There are also prefixes for Islands (IL3, IL4, IA5, IJ7, IC8, ID9, IF9, IG9, IH9, IB0) but some of them are hard to find on the air. IQ is used for clubs, IY for Marconi Memorial stations, most other calls are contest vanity calls or special calls.
Province Abbreviations (also to be used in postal addresses after the city and in parenthesis)
AG=Agrigento, AL=Alessandria, AN=Ancona, AO=Aosta, AP=Ascoli Piceno, AQ=L'Aquila, AR=Arezzo, AT=Asti, AV=Avellino, BA=Bari, BG=Bergamo, BI=Biella, BL=Belluno, BN=Benevento, BO=Bologna, BR=Brindisi, BS=Brescia, BT=Barletta-Andria-Trani, BZ=Bolzano, CA=Cagliari, CB=Campobasso, CE=Caserta, CH=Chieti, CI=Carbonia-Iglesias, CL=Caltanissetta, CN=Cuneo, CO=Como, CR=Cremona, CS=Cosenza, CT=Catania, CZ=Catanzaro, EN=Enna, FC=Forlì-Cesena, FE=Ferrara, FG=Foggia, FI=Firenze (Florence), FM=Fermo, FO=(replaced by FC), FR=Frosinone, GE=Genova (Genoa), GO=Gorizia, GR=Grosseto, IM=Imperia, IS=Isernia, KR=Crotone, LC=Lecco, LE=Lecce, LI=Livorno (Leghorn), LO=Lodi, LT=Latina, LU=Lucca, MB=Monza e Brianza, MC=Macerata, MD=Medio Campidano, ME=Messina, MI=Milano (Milan), MN=Mantova (Mantua), MO=Modena, MS=Massa-Carrara, MT=Matera, MZ=Monza e Brianz, NA=Napoli (Naples), NO=Novara, NU=Nuoro, OG=Ogliastra, OR=Oristano, OT=Olbia-Tempio, PA=Palermo, PC=Piacenza, PD=Padova (Padua), PE=Pescara, PG=Perugia, PI=Pisa, PN=Pordenone, PO=Prato, PR=Parma, PS=(replaced by PU) PT=Pistoia, PU=Pesaro e Urbino, PV=Pavia, PZ=Potenza, RA=Ravenna, RC=Reggio Calabria, RE=Reggio Emilia, RG=Ragusa, RI=Rieti, RM=Roma (Rome), RN=Rimini, RO=Rovigo, SA=Salerno, SI=Siena (Sienna), SO=Sondrio, SP=La Spezia, SR=Siracusa (Syracuse), SS=Sassari, SV=Savona, TA=Taranto, TE=Teramo, TN=Trento, TO=Torino (Turin), TP=Trapani, TR=Terni, TS=Trieste, TV=Treviso, UD=Udine, VA=Varese, VB=Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, VC=Vercelli, VE=Venezia (Venice), VI=Vicenza, VR=Verona, VT=Viterbo, VV=Vibo Valentia