Melpignano is a small town and comune

Comune

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in the province of Lecce

Lecce

Lecce is a historic city of 95,200 inhabitants in southern Italy, the capital of the province of Lecce, the second province in the region by population, as well as one of the most important cities of Puglia...

 in Apulia

Apulia

Apulia is a region in Southern Italy bordering the Adriatic Sea in the east, the Ionian Sea to the southeast, and the Strait of Òtranto and Gulf of Taranto in the south. Its most southern portion, known as Salento peninsula, forms a high heel on the "boot" of Italy. The region comprises , and...

, Italy

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. It is one of the nine towns of Grecìa Salentina

Grecìa Salentina

Grecia Salentina is an area in the peninsula of Salento in southern Italy, near the town of Lecce which is inhabited by the Griko people, an ethnic Greek minority living in southern Italy who traditionally spoke a Greek Language dialect also called Griko. It consists of eleven towns and belongs to...

. Melpignano has a population of 2,209 inhabitants (called Melpignanesi) and an area of thus showing a population density of 202,1 inhabitants per square kilometer. It rises 89 metres above the sea level.

There are 84 industrial firms employing 474 people that are the 60,69 % of the total of the workers.