Region of Italy
Campania
Campania is a region of Italy. It covers about 13,500 km² (5,220 mi²), the 12th largest of the 20 regions in Natural Earth’s file for Italy, and about the same size as Montenegro. About 5.8 million people live there (Wikidata, 2019).
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Facts
| Area, measured | 13,500 km²5,220 mi² |
|---|---|
| Official area | 13,700 km²Wikidata · agrees with our measure |
| Share of Italy | 4.5%of the area of the 20 regions |
| Rank by area | 12th of 20regions of Italy |
| Population | 5.8 millionWikidata, 2019 |
| Density | 428 people per km² |
| Capital | Naples |
| Latitude range | 40°N to 41°N |
| Type | RegionIT-72 |
What the numbers say about Campania
- Campania covers 4.5% of the area of Italy and ranks 3rd of 20 by population, against 12th by area.
- It would take 22.3 regions the size of Campania to cover Italy.
- The largest, Sicily (Italy), is 1.91× the size of Campania; the smallest, Aosta Valley, is 24% of it.
- Closest in size within Italy: Trentino-Alto Adige (13,500 km², 1.00×) and Calabria (15,100 km², 1.12×).
- Counted as a country, Campania would be larger than 79 of the 239 countries and territories listed on sizeversus, and would rank 161st by area, between Montenegro (13,700 km²) and the Bahamas (12,600 km²).
- With 5.8 million people it would rank 116th of 238 by population.
- Campania has 428 people per km², about the density of India, which has 421 per km².
- That makes Campania the most densely populated of the 20 regions, 2.14× the average for Italy (200 per km²).
- Campania has 11.3× the density of Aosta Valley, the least crowded of the 20: 428 against 38 people per km².
- On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 41°N is drawn about 1.7× too large in area, so Campania looks bigger there than it is.
- Laid out flat, Campania stretches about 167 km north to south and 172 km east to west.
- Wikidata's official figure of 13,700 km² agrees with our measured area of 13,500 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.
- ChinaAreaTianjin1.18× · 11,500 km²PeopleQinghai0.98× · 5.9 million (2020)
- United StatesAreaConnecticut1.06× · 12,700 km²PeopleColorado1.00× · 5.8 million (2020)
- IndiaAreaNagaland83% · 16,300 km²PeopleHimachal Pradesh84% · 6.9 million (2011)
- GermanyAreaSchleswig-Holstein88% · 15,400 km²PeopleHesse0.93× · 6.2 million (2022)
- FranceAreaÎle-de-France1.12× · 12,100 km²PeopleHauts-de-France0.96× · 6.0 million (2022)
- SpainAreaMurcia1.19× · 11,300 km²PeopleValencian Community1.09× · 5.3 million (2024)
- JapanAreaNagano0.99× · 13,700 km²PeopleHyogo1.06× · 5.5 million (2021)
- BrazilAreaSergipe63% · 21,600 km²PeopleMaranhão85% · 6.8 million (2022)
- CanadaAreanone within 2×PeopleBritish Columbia1.16× · 5.0 million (2021)
- AustraliaAreanone within 2×PeopleQueensland1.03× · 5.6 million (2024)
- MexicoAreaQuerétaro1.15× · 11,700 km²PeopleGuanajuato0.99× · 5.9 million (2015)
- ThailandAreaSurat Thani1.00× · 13,400 km²PeopleBangkok1.02× · 5.7 million (2018)
Where Campania sits in Italy
All 20 drawn on one equal-area map, so sizes are comparable. Select another to open it.
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Sources and method
- Outline
- Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain: the 5 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