Regions of Italy, matched to countries
Natural Earth’s file draws Italy as 110 provinces, the tier below the regions. Size Versus joins them along their shared borders into the 20 regions below, each drawn at true scale and matched to the country closest to it in area and in population.
Trentino-Alto Adige is one region made of the two autonomous provinces of Trento and Bolzano (South Tyrol). Aosta Valley, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Sardinia, Sicily and Trentino-Alto Adige have a special statute.
Population: the 2019 figures Wikidata holds, for 19 of the 20 regions. The only figure it has for Sardinia (Italy) (2020) is a different year, and it is shown with that year. Every population on these pages carries its year; they are not one count taken on one day.
At a glance
- Sicily (Italy), the largest, is 7.83× the size of Aosta Valley, the smallest.
- The five largest, Sicily (Italy), Piedmont, Sardinia (Italy), Lombardy, Tuscany, cover 41% of Italy.
- None of the 20 is larger than the United Kingdom (244,000 km²).
- None of the 20 is larger than France (548,000 km²).
- Campania, the most crowded, has 428 people per km²: 11.3× Aosta Valley, the least crowded (38).
- Half of the people counted live in the 5 most populous (Lombardy, Lazio, Campania, Sicily (Italy) and Veneto), which cover 33% of the area; the years of the figures differ.
- 1 of the 20 has more people than the median of the 38 European countries listed here (6.6 million).
- 7 of the 20 are within 10% in area of a European country, among them Piedmont and North Macedonia (1.00×), Trentino-Alto Adige and Montenegro (1.02×), Campania and Montenegro (1.02×).
Every region matched to a country
Largest first. The matches are the countries closest in area and in population from Natural Earth’s country list; contested places and dependencies are never used as matches. Population is the newest figure Wikidata holds, with its year.
- Sicily (Italy)25,900 km² · 5.0 million (2019)Size ofNorth Macedonia1.02× · 25,400 km²People ofNicaragua0.97× · 5.1 million
- Piedmont25,500 km² · 4.3 million (2019)Size ofNorth Macedonia1.00× · 25,400 km²People ofKuwait0.97× · 4.5 million
- Sardinia (Italy)24,100 km² · 1.6 million (2020)Size ofRwanda0.95× · 25,300 km²People ofNorth Macedonia89% · 1.8 million
- Lombardy24,000 km² · 10.1 million (2019)Size ofRwanda0.95× · 25,300 km²People ofAzerbaijan0.99× · 10.2 million
- Tuscany23,000 km² · 3.7 million (2019)Size ofBelize1.03× · 22,300 km²People ofBosnia and Herzegovina0.98× · 3.8 million
- Emilia-Romagna22,500 km² · 4.5 million (2019)Size ofBelize1.01× · 22,300 km²People ofKuwait1.00× · 4.5 million
- Apulia19,500 km² · 4.0 million (2019)Size ofFiji1.03× · 18,900 km²People ofGeorgia1.03× · 3.9 million
- Veneto18,000 km² · 4.9 million (2019)Size ofKuwait1.03× · 17,500 km²People ofOman1.02× · 4.8 million
- Lazio17,000 km² · 5.9 million (2019)Size ofEswatini1.00× · 17,100 km²People ofDenmark1.01× · 5.8 million
- Calabria15,100 km² · 1.9 million (2019)Size ofEast Timor1.00× · 15,100 km²People ofLesotho0.97× · 2.0 million
- Trentino-Alto Adige13,500 km² · 1.1 million (2019)Size ofMontenegro0.98× · 13,700 km²People ofDjibouti0.93× · 1.2 million
- Campania13,500 km² · 5.8 million (2019)Size ofMontenegro0.98× · 13,700 km²People ofDenmark0.99× · 5.8 million
- Abruzzo10,900 km² · 1.3 million (2019)Size ofJamaica0.99× · 11,000 km²People ofCyprus0.97× · 1.3 million
- Basilicata10,100 km² · 563,000 (2019)Size ofLebanon1.01× · 10,000 km²People ofSuriname1.00× · 563,000
- Marche9,450 km² · 1.5 million (2019)Size ofLebanon0.94× · 10,000 km²People ofEast Timor1.09× · 1.4 million
- Umbria8,500 km² · 882,000 (2019)Size ofLebanon85% · 10,000 km²People ofGuyana1.00× · 879,000
- Friuli-Venezia Giulia7,340 km² · 1.2 million (2019)Size ofBrunei1.28× · 5,720 km²People ofEswatini0.99× · 1.2 million
- Liguria5,490 km² · 1.6 million (2019)Size ofCyprus1.02× · 5,400 km²People ofEast Timor1.11× · 1.4 million
- Molise4,530 km² · 304,000 (2019)Size ofTrinidad and Tobago88% · 5,120 km²People ofVanuatu1.01× · 300,000
- Aosta Valley3,300 km² · 126,000 (2019)Size ofSamoa1.19× · 2,780 km²People ofSamoa63% · 200,000
The closest matches in size
How crowded they are
Beside the regions of other countries
Every region also has a closest match, by area and by people, among the 375 regions of the other 12 countries. All the matches, in both directions, are on one page.
Sources and method
- Outlines
- Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain. The file draws Italy as 110 provinces; the 20 regions listed are those pieces joined along their shared borders, and each joined outline is measured whole. Nothing is redrawn.
- Boundary
- De facto, as drawn by Natural Earth.
- Area
- Measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outlines, shown rounded. The 20 areas add up to 301,000 km², within 0.1% of the country’s measured area.
- Official figures
- Area, population and capital from Wikidata (CC0), fetched 2026-11-12. Population is the 2019 figure where Wikidata has it, otherwise its newest; the year is shown.
- Data built
- 2026-11-12