Province of Medio Campidano

Province of Medio Campidano
Province
Map highlighting the location of the province of Medio Campidano in Italy
Country	Italy
Region	Sardinia
Capital(s)	Sanluri and Villacidro
Comuni	28
Area
• Total	1,516 km2 (585 sq mi)
Population  (2001)
• Total	105,400
• Density	70/km2 (180/sq mi)
GDP [1]
• Total	€1.434 billion (2015)
• Per capita	€14,379 (2015)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	VS
ISTAT	106

The province of Medio Campidano (Italian: provincia del Medio Campidano; Sardinian: provìntzia de su Campidanu de Mesu) was a province in the autonomous region of Sardinia, Italy. As of 2015, the province had a population of 100,141 inhabitants over an area of 1,517.34 square kilometres (585.85 sq mi), giving it a population density of 66 inhabitants per square kilometre. It had two chief towns, Villacidro and Sanluri, with 14,245 and 8,543 inhabitants, respectively. It was established in 2005 from a section of the province of Cagliari. It contained 28 comuni (municipalities) and the president of the province was Fulvio Tocco.^[2] Medio Campidano was suppressed as a province by a 2016 Regional Decree and was integrated into the newly founded province of South Sardinia.

The province contains e.g. the Nuragic archaeological site Su Nuraxi in Barumini, which was included in the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites in 1997.^[3]