Region of Italy
Lombardy
Lombardy is a region of Italy. It covers about 24,000 km² (9,260 mi²), the 4th largest of the 20 regions in Natural Earth’s file for Italy, and 95% of the size of Rwanda. About 10.1 million people live there (Wikidata, 2019).
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Facts
| Area, measured | 24,000 km²9,260 mi² |
|---|---|
| Official area | 23,900 km²Wikidata · agrees with our measure |
| Share of Italy | 8.0%of the area of the 20 regions |
| Rank by area | 4th of 20regions of Italy |
| Population | 10.1 millionWikidata, 2019 |
| Density | 420 people per km² |
| Capital | Milan |
| Latitude range | 45°N to 47°N |
| Type | RegionIT-25 |
What the numbers say about Lombardy
- Lombardy covers 8.0% of the area of Italy and ranks 1st of 20 by population, against 4th by area.
- It would take 12.6 regions the size of Lombardy to cover Italy.
- The largest, Sicily (Italy), is 1.08× the size of Lombardy; the smallest, Aosta Valley, is 14% of it.
- Closest in size within Italy: Sardinia (Italy) (24,100 km², 1.01×) and Tuscany (23,000 km², 1.04×).
- Counted as a country, Lombardy 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 10.1 million people it would rank 92nd of 238 by population.
- Lombardy has 420 people per km², about the density of India, which has 421 per km².
- That makes Lombardy the 2nd most densely populated of the 20 regions, 2.10× the average for Italy (200 per km²).
- On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 46°N is drawn about 2.0× too large in area, so Lombardy looks bigger there than it is.
- Laid out flat, Lombardy stretches about 216 km north to south and 229 km east to west.
- Wikidata's official figure of 23,900 km² agrees with our measured area of 24,000 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.
- ChinaAreaHainan71% · 33,800 km²PeopleHainan1.00× · 10.1 million (2020)
- United StatesAreaNew Hampshire0.99× · 24,300 km²PeopleMichigan1.00× · 10.1 million (2020)
- IndiaAreaMeghalaya1.04× · 23,100 km²PeopleUttarakhand1.00× · 10.1 million (2011)
- GermanyAreaMecklenburg-Western Pomerania1.03× · 23,200 km²PeopleBaden-Württemberg0.91× · 11.1 million (2022)
- FranceAreaBrittany88% · 27,300 km²PeopleÎle-de-France81% · 12.4 million (2022)
- SpainAreaValencian Community1.03× · 23,300 km²PeopleAndalusia1.17× · 8.6 million (2024)
- JapanAreaIwate1.55× · 15,500 km²PeopleKanagawa1.09× · 9.2 million (2020)
- BrazilAreaSergipe1.11× · 21,600 km²PeopleRio Grande do Sul0.93× · 10.9 million (2022)
- CanadaAreanone within 2×PeopleQuebec1.18× · 8.5 million (2021)
- AustraliaAreanone within 2×PeopleNew South Wales1.18× · 8.5 million (2024)
- MexicoAreaTabasco1.00× · 24,100 km²PeopleMexico City1.13× · 8.9 million (2015)
- ThailandAreaChiang Mai1.05× · 22,800 km²PeopleBangkok1.77× · 5.7 million (2018)
Where Lombardy sits in Italy
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Sources and method
- Outline
- Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain: the 12 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