Region of Italy
Apulia
Apulia is a region of Italy. It covers about 19,500 km² (7,510 mi²), the 7th largest of the 20 regions in Natural Earth’s file for Italy, and about the same size as Fiji. About 4.0 million people live there (Wikidata, 2019).
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- Apulia
- Fiji
Facts
| Area, measured | 19,500 km²7,510 mi² |
|---|---|
| Official area | 19,500 km²Wikidata · agrees with our measure |
| Share of Italy | 6.5%of the area of the 20 regions |
| Rank by area | 7th of 20regions of Italy |
| Population | 4.0 millionWikidata, 2019 |
| Density | 207 people per km² |
| Capital | Bari |
| Latitude range | 40°N to 42°N |
| Type | RegionIT-75 |
What the numbers say about Apulia
- Apulia covers 6.5% of the area of Italy and ranks 8th of 20 by population, against 7th by area.
- It would take 15.5 regions the size of Apulia to cover Italy.
- The largest, Sicily (Italy), is 1.33× the size of Apulia; the smallest, Aosta Valley, is 17% of it.
- Closest in size within Italy: Veneto (18,000 km², 1.08×) and Lazio (17,000 km², 1.14×).
- Counted as a country, Apulia would be larger than 85 of the 239 countries and territories listed on sizeversus, and would rank 155th by area, between Slovenia (20,300 km²) and Fiji (18,900 km²).
- With 4.0 million people it would rank 130th of 238 by population.
- Apulia has 207 people per km², about the density of North Korea, which has 216 per km².
- That makes Apulia the 6th most densely populated of the 20 regions, 1.03× the average for Italy (200 per km²).
- On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 41°N is drawn about 1.8× too large in area, so Apulia looks bigger there than it is.
- Laid out flat, Apulia stretches about 237 km north to south and 301 km east to west.
- Wikidata's official figure of 19,500 km² agrees with our measured area of 19,500 km², to within 2%.
About the same size as
Beside the regions of other countries
The closest region by area and by people in each of the other countries that have regional pages here, within a factor of 2. All 395 regions side by side.
- ChinaAreaBeijing1.20× · 16,300 km²PeopleTibet1.10× · 3.6 million (2020)
- United StatesAreaNew Jersey0.99× · 19,700 km²PeopleOklahoma1.02× · 4.0 million (2020)
- IndiaAreaMizoram0.92× · 21,200 km²PeopleTripura1.10× · 3.7 million (2011)
- GermanyAreaRhineland-Palatinate0.97× · 20,100 km²PeopleSaxony0.99× · 4.1 million (2022)
- FranceAreaBrittany71% · 27,300 km²PeoplePays de la Loire1.04× · 3.9 million (2022)
- SpainAreaValencian Community84% · 23,300 km²PeopleValencian Community76% · 5.3 million (2024)
- JapanAreaIwate1.26× · 15,500 km²PeopleShizuoka1.12× · 3.6 million (2021)
- BrazilAreaSergipe0.90× · 21,600 km²PeopleParaíba1.01× · 4.0 million (2022)
- CanadaAreanone within 2×PeopleAlberta0.95× · 4.3 million (2021)
- AustraliaAreanone within 2×PeopleWestern Australia1.34× · 3.0 million (2024)
- MexicoAreaHidalgo0.91× · 21,300 km²PeopleOaxaca1.02× · 4.0 million (2015)
- ThailandAreaKanchanaburi0.97× · 20,000 km²PeopleBangkok71% · 5.7 million (2018)
Where Apulia sits in Italy
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Sources and method
- Outline
- Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain: the 6 provinces of this region in the file, joined along their shared borders.
- Boundary
- De facto, as drawn by Natural Earth.
- Area
- Measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outline, shown rounded. The region’s whole area is counted, every island included.
- Official figures
- Area, population and capital from Wikidata (CC0), fetched 2026-11-12
- Population
- Wikidata, 2019. Italy’s units share the 2019 figures where Wikidata has them; the year is shown wherever the figure is.
- Matching
- Countries come from Natural Earth’s country file. Places whose status is contested and dependencies are never used as automatic matches. A region under 2,500 km² is matched against the small countries and island nations.
- Data built
- 2026-11-12