It has an area of 5,638 square kilometres (2,177 sq mi), and, As of 2017[update], a total population of 210,972.

[2] The other comuni are generally not so large, even if Oliena (7,123 inhabitants) and Orosei (7,025) can be considered as well as populated towns.The province was established in 1927.

[3] In 2005, the territory of the province of Nuoro was substantially reduced as a consequence of the establishment in the island of four new provinces; subsequent administrative reforms have increased its size once again in 2016, through the annexation of 22 out of the 23 communes which made up the short-lived Ogliastra.

[5] Whilst the Italian government challenged the law,[6] thus stalling its implementation,[7] on March 12, 2022, the Constitutional Court ruled in favor of the Autonomous Region of Sardinia.

From 5 March 2001 to 3 January 2002, Antonio Todde, from Tiana, was the oldest man in the world.