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Top 20 most populous states, provinces and regions · 🇮🇹 Italy

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Why these 20

Population of each country's first-level regions (states, provinces, prefectures, oblasts) from Wikidata, which takes it from census offices. Where Wikidata has figures for several years the highest is used, which is usually the latest census; regions that shrink may show an older, larger figure.

  1. 1 L

    Lombardy

    administrative region in Northern Italy

    10,067,494

  2. 2 C

    Campania

    region in Southern Italy

    5,786,373

  3. 3 L

    Lazio

    region of Italy

    5,720,536

  4. 4 S

    Sicily

    island in the Mediterranean, region of Italy

    4,983,478

  5. 5 V

    Veneto

    region in Italy

    4,869,830

  6. 6 E

    Emilia-Romagna

    region of Italy

    4,459,477

  7. 7 P

    Piedmont

    region in North-West Italy

    4,341,375

  8. 8 A

    Apulia

    region of Italy

    3,866,174

  9. 9 T

    Tuscany

    region of Italy

    3,729,641

  10. 10 C

    Calabria

    region of Italy

    1,947,131

  11. 11 S

    Sardinia

    island and autonomous region of Italy

    1,628,384

  12. 12 L

    Liguria

    Italian region

    1,550,640

  13. 13 M

    Marche

    region of Italy with ordinary statute

    1,522,608

  14. 14 A

    Abruzzo

    region in Italy

    1,308,451

  15. 15 F

    Friuli Venezia Giulia

    autonomous region of Italy

    1,215,220

  16. 16 T

    Trentino-South Tyrol

    autonomous region in Northern Italy

    1,072,276

  17. 17 U

    Umbria

    region of Italy

    852,085

  18. 18 B

    Basilicata

    region of Italy

    547,579

  19. 19 M

    Molise

    region in Italy

    304,285

  20. 20 A

    Aosta Valley

    Italian mountainous semi-autonomous region in the North-West

    125,666

How it is measured

Wikidata: the first-level divisions each country lists as its own (P150, contains the administrative territorial entity) that have a population (P1082) and no dissolution date; grouped by country, the world view is built from the countries.

References

  1. Wikidata query: first-level regions by population, Wikidata (CC0). Checked 2026-10-20 04:46 UTC.