Population
It has an area of 7,190 km², and a total population of 638,532 (2012). There are currently 64 comuni (singular: comune) in the province, see Comuni of the Province of Foggia. The number of comuni will be reduced to 61 in the year 2009 when three of its comuni, with a total population of 41,394 (2005 census) leave to form part of the new Province of Barletta-Andria-Trani. The three comuni, along with their 2005 census populations, are Margherita di Savoia (12,749), San Ferdinando di Puglia (14,457), and Trinitapoli (14,414). (The seven other comuni that will comprise the new province will come from the current Province of Bari.) The resulting loss would leave the remaining territory of the Province of Foggia with an adjusted population of 645,236 as of the 2005 census.
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