Thee Province of Florence is a province in the Tuscany region of Italy. It has an area of  about 3.500 sq. km dvided in 44 municipalities and it corresponds roughly to the territory which was the county town of Florence in the early fourteenth century.

All the municipalities of the province have very ancient links with the capital: geographical, historical, social and economic reasons can still be distincted through the old subregional names:

• Mugello, the Val di Sieve and the florentine area of Romagna
  
• Florence and its surroundings
• the Lower Valdarno and the Val d'Elsa
• the Chianti
• the Upper Valdarno

The city of Florence is the capital both of the Province and the Region of Tuscany. Much of the province lies in the plain of the Arno river and has thus become an exurban sprawl around the city of Florence (Area Fiorentina). The northeastern part of the province, in the Apennines, has escaped this fate and remains unspoiled. Particular places of beauty or interest in the province includes Barberino Val d'Elsa, Fiesole, Greve in Chianti and Tavarnelle Val di Pesa.

Coat of arms and Gonfalone
The province of Florence adopted an emblem depicting the Florentine lily, half silver on a red, red and the other half on a silver. The diversity of colors of lily alludes to the history of the symbol itself, which was white until the year 1251, and red when the Guelphs, hunted the Ghibellines, inverted colors.