Region of Italy
Emilia-Romagna
Emilia-Romagna is a region of Italy. It covers about 22,500 km² (8,690 mi²), the 6th largest of the 20 regions in Natural Earth’s file for Italy, and about the same size as Belize. About 4.5 million people live there (Wikidata, 2019).
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- Emilia-Romagna
- Belize
Facts
| Area, measured | 22,500 km²8,690 mi² |
|---|---|
| Official area | 22,100 km²Wikidata · agrees with our measure |
| Share of Italy | 7.5%of the area of the 20 regions |
| Rank by area | 6th of 20regions of Italy |
| Population | 4.5 millionWikidata, 2019 |
| Density | 198 people per km² |
| Capital | Bologna |
| Latitude range | 44°N to 45°N |
| Type | RegionIT-45 |
What the numbers say about Emilia-Romagna
- Emilia-Romagna covers 7.5% of the area of Italy and ranks 6th of 20 by both area and population.
- It would take 13.4 regions the size of Emilia-Romagna to cover Italy.
- The largest, Sicily (Italy), is 1.15× the size of Emilia-Romagna; the smallest, Aosta Valley, is 15% of it.
- Closest in size within Italy: Tuscany (23,000 km², 1.02×) and Lombardy (24,000 km², 1.07×).
- Counted as a country, Emilia-Romagna would be larger than 90 of the 239 countries and territories listed on sizeversus, and would rank 150th by area, between Rwanda (25,300 km²) and Belize (22,300 km²).
- With 4.5 million people it would rank 130th of 238 by population.
- Emilia-Romagna has 198 people per km², about the density of Nepal, which has 198 per km².
- That makes Emilia-Romagna the 7th most densely populated of the 20 regions, 99% of the average for Italy (200 per km²).
- On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 45°N is drawn about 2.0× too large in area, so Emilia-Romagna looks bigger there than it is.
- Laid out flat, Emilia-Romagna stretches about 155 km north to south and 283 km east to west.
- Wikidata's official figure of 22,100 km² agrees with our measured area of 22,500 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.
- ChinaAreaBeijing1.39× · 16,300 km²PeopleTibet1.22× · 3.6 million (2020)
- United StatesAreaMassachusetts1.06× · 21,200 km²PeopleKentucky0.99× · 4.5 million (2020)
- IndiaAreaMeghalaya0.97× · 23,100 km²PeopleTripura1.21× · 3.7 million (2011)
- GermanyAreaMecklenburg-Western Pomerania0.97× · 23,200 km²PeopleRhineland-Palatinate1.09× · 4.1 million (2022)
- FranceAreaBrittany82% · 27,300 km²PeoplePays de la Loire1.15× · 3.9 million (2022)
- SpainAreaValencian Community0.97× · 23,300 km²PeopleValencian Community84% · 5.3 million (2024)
- JapanAreaIwate1.45× · 15,500 km²PeopleFukuoka87% · 5.1 million (2020)
- BrazilAreaSergipe1.04× · 21,600 km²PeopleParaíba1.12× · 4.0 million (2022)
- CanadaAreanone within 2×PeopleAlberta1.05× · 4.3 million (2021)
- AustraliaAreanone within 2×PeopleQueensland79% · 5.6 million (2024)
- MexicoAreaState of Mexico1.03× · 21,800 km²PeopleMichoacán0.97× · 4.6 million (2015)
- ThailandAreaChiang Mai0.99× · 22,800 km²PeopleBangkok79% · 5.7 million (2018)
Where Emilia-Romagna sits in Italy
All 20 drawn on one equal-area map, so sizes are comparable. Select another to open it.
Ranked within Italy
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Sources and method
- Outline
- Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain: the 9 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