Europe · Southern Europe

Italy

Italy covers about 301,000 km² (116,000 mi²), the 73rd largest of the 246 places listed here. That is close to Philippines, at about 293,000 km².

301,000km²Area, main territory
58.9 millionPopulation
9.82In Belgiums

200 km

Italy

Facts

Area, main territory	301,000 km²116,000 mi²
Official area	302,000 km²Wikidata · agrees with our measure
In Belgiums	9.82
Capital	Rome
Population	58.9 millionWikidata, 2023
Density	195 people per km²
Latitude range	35°N to 47°N
In other languages	Italia Español · Italien Deutsch · Italie Français · Itália Português · イタリア日本語 · 意大利中文 · 이탈리아 한국어
Continent	Europe#10 of 50 countries by area

What the numbers say about Italy

Russia, the largest place listed, is 56.4× the size of Italy.
Italy ranks 24th of 237 by population but only 72nd of 239 by area: it holds more people than its size suggests.
At 195 people per km², Italy is the 38th most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 43°N is drawn about 1.9× too large in area, so Italy looks bigger there than it is.
Laid out flat, Italy's main territory stretches about 1,160 km north to south and 975 km east to west.
Wikidata's official figure of 302,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 301,000 km², to within 2%.

How Italy measures up

Italy holds 1.3% of the land area and 7.9% of the people of the 50 countries listed for Europe. In Southern Europe it is the 2nd largest of 17.

Where it ranks	Figure	Position
Area	301,000 km²	72nd of 239
Population	58.9 million	24th of 237
Density	195 per km²	38th of 185
Farthest north	42.7°N	45th of 212

Compared with	Its area	Italy is
Belgium	30,700 km²	9.82× its size
United Kingdom	244,000 km²	1.24× its size
Germany	358,000 km²	0.84× its size
Japan	374,000 km²	0.81× its size
France	548,000 km²	0.55× its size
India	3,151,000 km²	0.10× its size
Brazil	8,473,000 km²	0.04× its size
United States	9,447,000 km²	0.03× its size
Russia	16,980,000 km²	0.02× its size

Where Italy sits

Italy's centre lies at 42.7°N, 12.2°E, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, about 4,750 km from the equator.
Its main territory spans 35°N to 47°N, about 1,290 km from its southern edge to its northern.

Closest neighbours, by distance between centres

On the same latitude, elsewhere in the world

If Italy had other densities

At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Italy would have 377.2 million people. It has 58.9 million.
At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Italy would have 1.1 million people. It has 58.9 million.
At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 21.8 million.

Regions of Italy

Natural Earth’s file draws Italy as 110 provinces; Size Versus joins them into 20 regions. Each has its own page, drawn at true size and matched to the countries closest to it in area and in people.

All 20 regions, matched to countries

About the same size as

Largest in Europe

Compare Italy

Sources and method

Outline: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 0 - Countries, public domain
Boundary: De facto, as drawn by Natural Earth.
Area: Measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outline, shown rounded
Official figures: Area, population and capital from Wikidata (CC0), fetched 2026-11-11
Population: Wikidata, 2023; covers the whole country, overseas territory included
Data built: 2026-11-11

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