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There is no way in geographical data to distinguish between province and municipality
This rich data fields that you can access entirely depend upon what is stored in the online database. For Italy it appears that the .[Admin Division 2] field is not used. The province, .[Admin Division 1] field is populated, as is .[Country/region]. The UK uses both, but it is the constituent country that populates Admin Division 1. In Greece, Athens has one administrative level stored but Sparta has two. Interestingly New York has no admin data other than United States, so perhaps you should not feel hard done by.
PeterBartholomew1 there is something wrong. We have three administrative regions inside the Italian country: region, province and municipality. You said that AR2 is not used but it should be the municipality and it is definitively used. Instead AR1 is the province and it is not used. So, they did something wrong. Probably used municipality in AR1 instead of province.
I am not sure it is wrong or simply following some unstated logic. The example of New York interested me because it was not reported as being in New York state (state capital Albany). Maybe it is a case of only using an entity name at one administrative level.