Region of Italy
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Friuli-Venezia Giulia is a region of Italy. It covers about 7,340 km² (2,830 mi²), the 17th largest of the 20 regions in Natural Earth’s file for Italy, and 1.28× the size of Brunei. About 1.2 million people live there (Wikidata, 2019).
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- Friuli-Venezia Giulia
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Facts
| Area, measured | 7,340 km²2,830 mi² |
|---|---|
| Official area | 7,860 km²Wikidata · 6.6% above our measure |
| Share of Italy | 2.4%of the area of the 20 regions |
| Rank by area | 17th of 20regions of Italy |
| Population | 1.2 millionWikidata, 2019 |
| Density | 166 people per km² |
| Capital | Trieste |
| Latitude range | 46°N to 47°N |
| Type | RegionIT-36 |
What the numbers say about Friuli-Venezia Giulia
- Friuli-Venezia Giulia covers 2.4% of the area of Italy and ranks 15th of 20 by population, against 17th by area.
- It would take 41.0 regions the size of Friuli-Venezia Giulia to cover Italy.
- The largest, Sicily (Italy), is 3.52× the size of Friuli-Venezia Giulia; the smallest, Aosta Valley, is 45% of it.
- Closest in size within Italy: Umbria (8,500 km², 1.16×) and Marche (9,450 km², 1.29×).
- Counted as a country, Friuli-Venezia Giulia would be larger than 70 of the 239 countries and territories listed on sizeversus, and would rank 170th by area, between Puerto Rico (9,010 km²) and French Southern and Antarctic Lands (6,990 km²).
- With 1.2 million people it would rank 161st of 238 by population.
- Friuli-Venezia Giulia has 166 people per km², about the density of Guatemala, which has 159 per km².
- That makes Friuli-Venezia Giulia the 10th most densely populated of the 20 regions, 83% of the average for Italy (200 per km²).
- On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 46°N is drawn about 2.1× too large in area, so Friuli-Venezia Giulia looks bigger there than it is.
- Laid out flat, Friuli-Venezia Giulia stretches about 118 km north to south and 120 km east to west.
- Our measured 7,340 km² is 6.6% below Wikidata's official figure of 7,860 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently. This difference is flagged for review.
About the same size as
Beside the regions of other countries
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- MexicoAreaColima1.25× · 5,880 km²PeopleNayarit0.99× · 1.2 million (2015)
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Where Friuli-Venezia Giulia sits in Italy
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Ranked within Italy
- 14Basilicata10,100 km²
- 15Marche9,450 km²
- 16Umbria8,500 km²
- 17Friuli-Venezia Giulia7,340 km²
- 18Liguria5,490 km²
- 19Molise4,530 km²
- 20Aosta Valley3,300 km²
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Sources and method
- Outline
- Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain: the 4 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