Region of Italy
Umbria
Umbria is a region of Italy. It covers about 8,500 km² (3,280 mi²), the 16th largest of the 20 regions in Natural Earth’s file for Italy, and 85% of the size of Lebanon. About 882,000 people live there (Wikidata, 2019).
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Facts
| Area, measured | 8,500 km²3,280 mi² |
|---|---|
| Official area | 8,460 km²Wikidata · agrees with our measure |
| Share of Italy | 2.8%of the area of the 20 regions |
| Rank by area | 16th of 20regions of Italy |
| Population | 882,000Wikidata, 2019 |
| Density | 104 people per km² |
| Capital | Perugia |
| Latitude range | 42°N to 44°N |
| Type | RegionIT-55 |
What the numbers say about Umbria
- Umbria covers 2.8% of the area of Italy and ranks 17th of 20 by population, against 16th by area.
- It would take 35.4 regions the size of Umbria to cover Italy.
- The largest, Sicily (Italy), is 3.04× the size of Umbria; the smallest, Aosta Valley, is 39% of it.
- Closest in size within Italy: Marche (9,450 km², 1.11×) and Friuli-Venezia Giulia (7,340 km², 1.16×).
- Counted as a country, Umbria would be larger than 70 of the 239 countries and territories listed on sizeversus, and would rank 170th by area, between Puerto Rico (9,010 km²) and French Southern and Antarctic Lands (6,990 km²).
- With 882,000 people it would rank 164th of 238 by population.
- Umbria has 104 people per km², about the density of Malaysia, which has 104 per km².
- That makes Umbria the 15th most densely populated of the 20 regions, 52% of the average for Italy (200 per km²).
- On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 43°N is drawn about 1.9× too large in area, so Umbria looks bigger there than it is.
- Laid out flat, Umbria stretches about 140 km north to south and 111 km east to west.
- Wikidata's official figure of 8,460 km² agrees with our measured area of 8,500 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.
- ChinaAreaShanghai1.26× · 6,750 km²Peoplenone within 2×
- United StatesAreaConnecticut67% · 12,700 km²PeopleSouth Dakota0.99× · 887,000 (2020)
- IndiaAreaAndaman and Nicobar Islands1.20× · 7,110 km²PeopleChandigarh84% · 1.1 million (2011)
- GermanyAreaSchleswig-Holstein55% · 15,400 km²PeopleSaarland88% · 1.0 million (2022)
- FranceAreaCorsica (France)0.98× · 8,670 km²PeopleRéunion (France)1.00× · 881,000 (2022)
- SpainAreaCommunity of Madrid1.06× · 8,000 km²PeopleAsturias87% · 1.0 million (2024)
- JapanAreaHyogo1.01× · 8,380 km²PeopleWakayama0.97× · 911,000 (2021)
- BrazilAreaFederal District1.47× · 5,790 km²PeopleAcre1.06× · 830,000 (2022)
- CanadaAreaPrince Edward Island1.48× · 5,730 km²PeopleNova Scotia0.91× · 969,000 (2021)
- AustraliaAreanone within 2×PeopleTasmania (Australia)1.63× · 540,000 (2020)
- MexicoAreaQuerétaro73% · 11,700 km²PeopleCampeche0.95× · 928,000 (2020)
- ThailandAreaSurin0.99× · 8,560 km²PeopleKanchanaburi0.99× · 892,000 (2020)
Where Umbria sits in Italy
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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