Region of Italy

Sicily (Italy)

Sicily (Italy) is a region of Italy. It covers about 25,900 km² (9,990 mi²), the largest of the 20 regions in Natural Earth’s file for Italy, and about the same size as North Macedonia. About 5.0 million people live there (Wikidata, 2019).

In area1.02×the size ofNorth Macedonia25,400 km² In people0.97×as many people asNicaragua5.1 million

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Sicily (Italy)
North Macedonia

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Area, measured	25,900 km²9,990 mi²
Official area	25,700 km²Wikidata · agrees with our measure
Share of Italy	8.6%of the area of the 20 regions
Rank by area	1st of 20regions of Italy
Population	5.0 millionWikidata, 2019
Density	193 people per km²
Capital	Palermo
Latitude range	35°N to 39°N
Type	RegionIT-82

What the numbers say about Sicily (Italy)

Sicily (Italy) covers 8.6% of the area of Italy and ranks 4th of 20 by population, against 1st by area.
It would take 11.6 regions the size of Sicily (Italy) to cover Italy.
The smallest, Aosta Valley, is 13% of the size of Sicily (Italy); the next largest, Piedmont, is 99%.
Closest in size within Italy: Piedmont (25,500 km², 1.01×) and Sardinia (Italy) (24,100 km², 1.07×).
Counted as a country, Sicily (Italy) 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 5.0 million people it would rank 125th of 238 by population.
Sicily (Italy) has 193 people per km², about the density of Uganda, which has 195 per km².
That makes Sicily (Italy) the 8th most densely populated of the 20 regions, 96% of the average for Italy (200 per km²).
On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 38°N is drawn about 1.6× too large in area, so Sicily (Italy) looks bigger there than it is.
Laid out flat, Sicily (Italy) stretches about 369 km north to south and 329 km east to west.
Wikidata's official figure of 25,700 km² agrees with our measured area of 25,900 km², to within 2%.

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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

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Where Sicily (Italy) sits in Italy

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About as many people as

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Where Sicily (Italy) sits in Italy

Ranked within Italy

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