Region of Italy
Piedmont
Piedmont is a region of Italy. It covers about 25,500 km² (9,850 mi²), the 2nd largest of the 20 regions in Natural Earth’s file for Italy, and about the same size as North Macedonia. About 4.3 million people live there (Wikidata, 2019).
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- Piedmont
- North Macedonia
Facts
| Area, measured | 25,500 km²9,850 mi² |
|---|---|
| Official area | 25,400 km²Wikidata · agrees with our measure |
| Share of Italy | 8.5%of the area of the 20 regions |
| Rank by area | 2nd of 20regions of Italy |
| Population | 4.3 millionWikidata, 2019 |
| Density | 170 people per km² |
| Capital | Turin |
| Latitude range | 44°N to 46°N |
| Type | RegionIT-21 |
What the numbers say about Piedmont
- Piedmont covers 8.5% of the area of Italy and ranks 7th of 20 by population, against 2nd by area.
- It would take 11.8 regions the size of Piedmont to cover Italy.
- The largest, Sicily (Italy), is 1.01× the size of Piedmont; the smallest, Aosta Valley, is 13% of it.
- Closest in size within Italy: Sicily (Italy) (25,900 km², 1.01×) and Sardinia (Italy) (24,100 km², 1.06×).
- Counted as a country, Piedmont would be larger than 92 of the 239 countries and territories listed on sizeversus, and would rank 148th by area, between Equatorial Guinea (26,700 km²) and North Macedonia (25,400 km²).
- With 4.3 million people it would rank 130th of 238 by population.
- Piedmont has 170 people per km², about the density of Guatemala, which has 159 per km².
- That makes Piedmont the 9th most densely populated of the 20 regions, 85% 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 Piedmont looks bigger there than it is.
- Laid out flat, Piedmont stretches about 263 km north to south and 205 km east to west.
- Wikidata's official figure of 25,400 km² agrees with our measured area of 25,500 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.
- ChinaAreaHainan75% · 33,800 km²PeopleTibet1.19× · 3.6 million (2020)
- United StatesAreaMaryland1.00× · 25,500 km²PeopleOregon1.02× · 4.2 million (2020)
- IndiaAreaMeghalaya1.10× · 23,100 km²PeopleTripura1.18× · 3.7 million (2011)
- GermanyAreaMecklenburg-Western Pomerania1.10× · 23,200 km²PeopleRhineland-Palatinate1.06× · 4.1 million (2022)
- FranceAreaBrittany0.93× · 27,300 km²PeoplePays de la Loire1.12× · 3.9 million (2022)
- SpainAreaValencian Community1.10× · 23,300 km²PeopleValencian Community82% · 5.3 million (2024)
- JapanAreaIwate1.65× · 15,500 km²PeopleFukuoka85% · 5.1 million (2020)
- BrazilAreaAlagoas0.92× · 27,600 km²PeopleParaíba1.09× · 4.0 million (2022)
- CanadaAreanone within 2×PeopleAlberta1.02× · 4.3 million (2021)
- AustraliaAreanone within 2×PeopleQueensland77% · 5.6 million (2024)
- MexicoAreaTabasco1.06× · 24,100 km²PeopleMichoacán0.95× · 4.6 million (2015)
- ThailandAreaChiang Mai1.12× · 22,800 km²PeopleBangkok76% · 5.7 million (2018)
Where Piedmont sits in Italy
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Sources and method
- Outline
- Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain: the 8 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