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Piedmont (/ ˈ p iː d m ɒ n t / PEED-mont; Italian: Piemonte; Piedmontese: Piemont [pjeˈmʊŋt]), [a] located in northwest Italy, is one of the 20 regions of Italy. [3] It borders the Liguria region to the south, the Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna regions to the east, and the Aosta Valley region to the northwest.
The Piedmont region in the Appalachian Highlands. The Piedmont (/ ˈ p iː d m ɒ n t / PEED-mont) [1] is a plateau region located in the Eastern United States.It is situated between the Atlantic Plain and the Blue Ridge Mountains, stretching from New York in the north to central Alabama in the south.
Location of Piedmont in Italy. Provinces of Piedmont. The following is a list of the municipalities of Piedmont, Italy. [1] There are 1,181 municipalities in Piedmont (as of January 2019): 187 in the Province of Alessandria; 118 in the Province of Asti; 74 in the Province of Biella; 247 in the Province of Cuneo; 87 in the Province of Novara
The Piedmont region of Virginia is a part of the greater Piedmont physiographic region which stretches from the falls of the Potomac, Rappahannock, and James Rivers to the Blue Ridge Mountains. The region runs across the middle of the state from north to south, expanding outward to a width of nearly 190 miles at the border with North Carolina .
Piedmont is a small city located in Alameda County, California, United States, enclaved by the city of Oakland. Its residential population was 11,270 at the 2020 census. [7] The name comes from the region of Piedmont in Italy, and it means 'foothill'. Piedmont was incorporated in 1907, and was developed significantly in the 1920s and 1930s.
Alba (Piedmontese: Arba; Latin: Alba Pompeia) is a town and comune of Piedmont, Italy, in the Province of Cuneo. It is one of the main cities in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roero and Monferrato. The town is famous for its white truffle and wine production. [2] [3] The confectionery group Ferrero is ...
The Geography of Piedmont is that of a territory predominantly mountainous, 43.3%, but with extensive areas of hills which represent 30.3% of the territory, and of plains (26.4%). To the north and to the west Piedmont is surrounded by the Alps , to the south by the Apennines , and to the east by the Po plain .
Piedmont blues or "Piedmont fingerstyle", a style of blues guitar playing; Piedmont League, defunct minor league baseball organization; Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia, the name given to the possessions of the House of Savoy in 1723; Piedmont, Arizona, fictional setting for part of the miniseries The Andromeda Strain; Ice piedmont, a geographic ...