The boundaries were more or less the same as today. As the size of the territory. But Rimini, at the time of the union of Italy, had less than 97 thousand residents, 80 thousand actually, without considering Novafeltria and the other 6 municipalities of Valmarecchia, which are part since last year of the province of Rimini. In 150 years Rimini’s population has more than tripled. This information is based on the new report provided by the statistic office kept by the Province of Rimini, which allows us (for the first time) to have a clear idea on the historical transformation of the territory of Rimini and the changes occurred since the union of Italy. And this is not the only surprising information we are given. The survey also shows how, time passing, people in high Valmarecchia (but also Valconca) moved away, decreasing the number of residents of the municipalities along the coast and the inland.

Population boom occurred after World War II. The case of Rimini is rather symbolical in this matter. From 27,996 residents surveyed in 1861, in 1936 the inhabitants were yet just 58,622 in Rimini. But after the world war, in 1951, the city could count on 69,873 people. Ten years later (in 1961) residents were already more than 23 thousand (+33%), continuously growing till the current number of 141,501 residents. OTHER coastal cities (Pearl, Bellaria, Misano) have suffered the same boom. With a few exceptions like Riccione, which in 1922, the year it became autonomous, had less than 6 thousand residents.

After the war the population on the coast increased to the detriment of the municipalities in the valleys. In 1861, 36.6% of the population of Rimini still lived Valmarecchia or Valconca, while 28.9% lived in Rimini and 9.8% in the other coastal municipalities. Nowadays however, 70% of the population of Rimini concentrates between Catholic and Bellaria while the population of municipalities of the valleys crumbled to 11, 8%.