General info

Entity:
Italy
Capital:
Rome
Population (2008-07-01):
58,145,321 (CIA)
Area:
301,230 sq.km.
Country code:
it
Region:
Southern Europe

Italy

Administrative units

ripartizione
regione (autonoma)
province		 capital area (sq.km.) population
2001-10-21
census		 population
2006-01-01
estimate
source: Instituto Nazionale di Statistica (ISTAT), Italy.
note: census 2001 numbers refer to resident population.
Nord-Ovest   57,933 14,938,562 15,551,047
Regione Liguria Génova 5,416 1,571,783 1,610,134
Regione Lombardia Milano 23,856 9,032,554 9,475,202
Regione Piemonte Torino 25,399 4,214,677 4,341,733
Regione Autonoma Valle d'Aosta Aosta 3,262 119,548 123,978
Nord-Est   61,951 10,634,820 11,119,276
Regione Emilia-Romagna Bologna 22,127 3,983,346 4,187,557
Regione Autonoma Friuli-Venezia Giulia Trieste 7,846 1,183,764 1,208,278
Regione Autonoma Trentino-Alto Adige Bolzano 13,613 940,016 985,128
Regione del Veneto Venézia 18,365 4,527,694 4,738,313
Centro   58,344 10,906,626 11,321,337
Regione Lazio Roma 17,203 5,112,413 5,304,778
Regione Marche Ancona 9,693 1,470,581 1,528,809
Regione Toscana Firenze 22,992 3,497,806 3,619,872
Regione Umbria Perúgia 8,456 825,826 867,878
Sud   73,245 13,914,865 14,087,162
Regione Abruzzo L'Aquila 10,793 1,262,392 1,305,307
Regione Basilicata Potenza 9,992 597,768 594,086
Regione Calábria Catanzaro 15,080 2,011,466 2,004,415
Regione Campania Nápoli 13,595 5,701,931 5,790,929
Regione Molise Campobasso 4,438 320,601 320,907
Regione Puglia Bari 19,347 4,020,707 4,071,518
Isole   49,799 6,600,871 6,672,889
Regione Sicilia Palermo 25,709 4,968,991 5,017,212
Regione Autonoma della Sardegna Cagliari 24,090 1,631,880 1,655,677
total   301,276 56,995,744 58,751,711

Main cities

name population
1991-10-20
census		 population
2001-10-21
census
Roma [EN Rome] 2,693,383 2,459,776
Milano [EN Milan] 1,371,008 1,182,693
Nápoli [EN Napels] 1,054,601 993,386
Torino [EN Turin] 961,916 857,433
Palermo 697,162 652,640
Génova [EN Genua] 675,659 603,560
Bologna 404,322 369,955
Firenze [EN Florence] 402,316 352,227
Bari 341,273 312,452
Catánia 330,037 306,464
Venézia [EN Venice] 308,717 266,181
Verona 252,689 243,474
Messina 272,461 236,621
Trieste 229,216 209,520
Pádova [EN Padua] 215,025 203,350
Táranto 232,200 201,349
Bréscia 200,722 187,865
Réggio di Calabria 169,709 179,384
Módena 176,148 175,442
Prato 165,364 170,388
Cágliari 203,254 158,351
Parma 168,905 156,172
Perúgia 143,698 148,575
Livorno 167,445 148,143
Fóggia 155,042 146,072
Salerno 153,436 144,078
Réggio nell'Emilia 131,419 141,383
Ravenna 135,435 138,204
Ferrara 137,336 130,461
Rímini 128,119 128,301
Siracusa 126,136 121,000
Monza 121,151 117,068
Pescara 121,367 115,197
Sássari 116,989 112,959
Bérgamo 115,655 110,691
Latina 105,543 108,711
Forlí 109,228 108,363
Vicenza 107,076 106,069
Trento .. 104,844
Terni 107,333 103,964
Novara 102,473 101,921
Ancona 101,179 100,402
Piacenza 102,252 95,132
Udine 99,157 94,759
Catanzaro .. 93,540
Bolzano 98,233 93,079
Andria .. 91,999
Brindisi .. 91,664
Arezzo .. 91,582
Giugliano in Campania .. 91,265
La Spézia 101,701 91,027
Barletta .. 90,602
Pesaro .. 90,311
Torre del Greco 101,456 90,255
Cesena .. 89,275
Pisa 98,006 85,379
Pistoia .. 83,936
Lecce 100,233 83,237
Varese .. 82,282
Alessandria .. 82,201
Treviso 101,340 79,875
Lucca .. 79,783
Pozzuoli .. 78,758
Como .. 78,315
Casoria .. 77,546
Marsala .. 77,013
Busto Arsizio .. 76,138
Sesto San Giovanni .. 75,421
Caserta .. 75,005
source: Instituto Nazionale di Statistica (ISTAT), Italy.
note: data for 2001 based on preliminary results of the census.