Region of Italy · also written Trentino-South Tyrol
Trentino-Alto Adige
Trentino-Alto Adige is a region of Italy. It covers about 13,500 km² (5,220 mi²), the 11th largest of the 20 regions in Natural Earth’s file for Italy, and about the same size as Montenegro. About 1.1 million people live there (Wikidata, 2019).
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- Trentino-Alto Adige
Facts
| Area, measured | 13,500 km²5,220 mi² |
|---|---|
| Official area | 13,600 km²Wikidata · agrees with our measure |
| Share of Italy | 4.5%of the area of the 20 regions |
| Rank by area | 11th of 20regions of Italy |
| Population | 1.1 millionWikidata, 2019 |
| Density | 79 people per km² |
| Capital | Trento |
| Latitude range | 46°N to 47°N |
| Type | RegionIT-32 |
What the numbers say about Trentino-Alto Adige
- Trentino-Alto Adige covers 4.5% of the area of Italy and ranks 16th of 20 by population, against 11th by area.
- It would take 22.3 regions the size of Trentino-Alto Adige to cover Italy.
- The largest, Sicily (Italy), is 1.91× the size of Trentino-Alto Adige; the smallest, Aosta Valley, is 24% of it.
- Closest in size within Italy: Campania (13,500 km², 1.00×) and Calabria (15,100 km², 1.12×).
- Counted as a country, Trentino-Alto Adige would be larger than 79 of the 239 countries and territories listed on sizeversus, and would rank 161st by area, between Montenegro (13,700 km²) and the Bahamas (12,600 km²).
- With 1.1 million people it would rank 162nd of 238 by population.
- Trentino-Alto Adige has 79 people per km², about the density of Greece, which has 80 per km².
- That makes Trentino-Alto Adige the 16th most densely populated of the 20 regions, 40% 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 Trentino-Alto Adige looks bigger there than it is.
- Laid out flat, Trentino-Alto Adige stretches about 156 km north to south and 160 km east to west.
- Wikidata's official figure of 13,600 km² agrees with our measured area of 13,500 km², to within 2%.
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.
- ChinaAreaTianjin1.18× · 11,500 km²Peoplenone within 2×
- United StatesAreaConnecticut1.06× · 12,700 km²PeopleMontana0.99× · 1.1 million (2020)
- IndiaAreaNagaland83% · 16,300 km²PeopleChandigarh1.02× · 1.1 million (2011)
- GermanyAreaSchleswig-Holstein88% · 15,400 km²PeopleSaarland1.06× · 1.0 million (2022)
- FranceAreaÎle-de-France1.12× · 12,100 km²PeopleRéunion (France)1.22× · 881,000 (2022)
- SpainAreaMurcia1.20× · 11,300 km²PeopleExtremadura1.02× · 1.1 million (2024)
- JapanAreaNagano0.99× · 13,700 km²PeopleYamagata1.01× · 1.1 million (2021)
- BrazilAreaSergipe63% · 21,600 km²PeopleAcre1.29× · 830,000 (2022)
- CanadaAreanone within 2×PeopleSaskatchewan0.95× · 1.1 million (2021)
- AustraliaAreanone within 2×PeopleSouth Australia57% · 1.9 million (2024)
- MexicoAreaQuerétaro1.16× · 11,700 km²PeopleNayarit88% · 1.2 million (2015)
- ThailandAreaSurat Thani1.01× · 13,400 km²PeopleSurat Thani1.00× · 1.1 million (2020)
Where Trentino-Alto Adige sits in Italy
All 20 drawn on one equal-area map, so sizes are comparable. Select another to open it.
Ranked within Italy
- 8Veneto18,000 km²
- 9Lazio17,000 km²
- 10Calabria15,100 km²
- 11Trentino-Alto Adige13,500 km²
- 12Campania13,500 km²
- 13Abruzzo10,900 km²
- 14Basilicata10,100 km²
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Sources and method
- Outline
- Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain: the 2 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