NUTS 3 areas of Italy by population

Name: NUTS 3 areas of Italy by population, 2016
Creator: Eurostat, European Commission
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Roma had the highest population of 107 areas in 2016, at 4.24 million. Isernia had the lowest, at 86,069. The median was 388,297 and the figure for Italy was 60.16 million. Source: Eurostat, European Commission.

Highest4,236,445Roma

Lowest86,069Isernia

Median388,297107 areas

Italy60,163,712History

Top 40 areas, 2016

CSV Chart (SVG)

persons. Source: Eurostat. Retrieved 2026-10-08.

Full ranking

Rank	Areas	2016 persons	Change on 2015
1	Roma	4,236,445	+0.5%
2	Milano	3,200,447	+0.4%
3	Napoli	3,071,681	-0.1%
4	Torino	2,268,360	-0.3%
5	Brescia	1,253,852	-0.2%
6	Palermo	1,250,836	-0.4%
7	Bari	1,249,699	-0.3%
8	Bergamo	1,104,383	-0.1%
9	Salerno	1,098,529	-0.3%
10	Catania	1,091,100	-0.3%
11	Firenze	1,005,359	-0%
12	Bologna	1,005,022	+0.3%
13	Padova	932,928	-0.1%
14	Verona	918,050	-0%
15	Caserta	917,423	-0.1%
16	Varese	885,308	-0.1%
17	Treviso	881,315	-0.3%
18	Vicenza	862,551	-0.3%
19	Monza e della Brianza	861,122	+0.1%
20	Venezia	852,177	-0.2%
21	Genova	846,211	-0.8%
22	Lecce	800,949	-0.5%
23	Cosenza	706,823	-0.6%
24	Modena	700,166	-0%
25	Perugia	655,997	-0.4%
26	Messina	635,610	-0.9%
27	Foggia	625,294	-0.7%
28	Como	597,433	-0.1%
29	Cuneo	590,522	-0.3%
30	Taranto	579,310	-0.5%
31	Latina	563,643	+0.2%
32	Reggio Calabria	546,527	-0.5%
33	Pavia	543,875	-0.2%
34	Trento	539,513	+0.2%
35	Udine	534,391	-0.5%
36	Reggio nell’Emilia	529,643	+0.1%
37	Bolzano-Bozen	520,252	+0.4%
38	Sassari	488,904	-0%
39	Frosinone	488,869	-0.5%
40	Ancona	474,334	-0.4%
41	Parma	446,764	+0.6%
42	Agrigento	441,375	-0.8%
43	Trapani	431,516	-0.3%
44	Alessandria	427,857	-0.7%
45	Cagliari	426,011	-0.2%
46	Avellino	423,372	-0.8%
47	Pisa	419,784	-0.3%
48	Mantova	409,504	-0.6%
49	Siracusa	399,617	-0.5%
50	Brindisi	396,312	-0.8%
51	Forlì-Cesena	393,717	-0.3%
52	Barletta-Andria-Trani	392,171	-0.4%
53	Ravenna	389,996	-0.1%
54	Lucca	388,297	-0.8%
55	Chieti	387,947	-0.6%
56	Potenza	370,854	-0.7%
57	Novara	368,071	-0.4%
58	Pesaro e Urbino	360,203	-0.5%
59	Cremona	358,243	-0.3%
60	Catanzaro	357,926	-0.3%
61	Sud Sardegna	355,986	-0.7%
62	Ferrara	350,704	-0.7%
63	Arezzo	343,761	-0.6%
64	Livorno	336,860	-0.4%
65	Lecco	335,812	-0.4%
66	Rimini	333,056	+0.1%
67	Pescara	320,710	-0.3%
68	Macerata	319,057	-0.6%
69	Ragusa	317,324	+0.1%
70	Viterbo	315,682	-0.5%
71	Pordenone	310,755	-0.4%
72	Teramo	308,326	-0.4%
73	L’Aquila	302,311	-0.6%
74	Pistoia	290,612	-0.2%
75	Piacenza	286,412	-0.4%
76	Benevento	279,778	-0.6%
77	Savona	278,768	-0.7%
78	Caltanissetta	268,749	-0.8%
79	Siena	268,679	-0.5%
80	Prato	253,400	+0.3%
81	Rovigo	238,940	-0.9%
82	Trieste	231,828	-0.4%
83	Terni	228,095	-0.6%
84	Lodi	226,999	-0.3%
85	Campobasso	223,957	-0.4%
86	Grosseto	222,981	-0.5%
87	La Spezia	219,741	-0.3%
88	Asti	216,756	-0.9%
89	Imperia	213,022	-0.9%
90	Nuoro	211,644	-0.8%
91	Ascoli Piceno	210,070	-0.5%
92	Belluno	204,687	-0.6%
93	Matera	199,033	-0.4%
94	Massa-Carrara	196,689	-1.1%
95	Sondrio	181,469	-0.2%
96	Biella	179,121	-0.8%
97	Fermo	174,778	-0.6%
98	Vercelli	174,247	-0.7%
99	Crotone	171,985	0%
100	Enna	168,273	-1%
101	Oristano	159,947	-0.7%
102	Vibo Valentia	159,824	-0.5%
103	Verbano-Cusio-Ossola	159,292	-0.6%
104	Rieti	156,869	-0.4%
105	Gorizia	139,234	-0.5%
106	Valle d’Aosta/Vallée d’Aoste	127,030	-0.7%
107	Isernia	86,069	-0.5%

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About this ranking

Resident population. Spain and the EU: 1 January, with Spanish figures from the official municipal register (Padrón). United States: Census Bureau population estimates for 1 July. Other countries and the World: World Bank mid-year estimates, which count all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship.

For Denmark, Statistics Denmark counts the registered resident population on 1 January. Greenland and the Faroe Islands are excluded. The annual series selects the first-quarter reference date from FOLK1A. The World Bank series exists for every country, so use it (through compare) to rank countries on one basis.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the areas are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.

How to cite

Eurostat. Population on 1 January by NUTS 3 region (demo_r_pjanaggr3). https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/demo_r_pjanaggr3/default/table. Retrieved 2026-10-08.

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Which area has the highest population?

Roma, with 4.24 million in 2016, according to Eurostat, European Commission.

Which area has the lowest population?

Isernia, with 86,069 in 2016.

Where does this ranking come from?

Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: Eurostat, European Commission, Population on 1 January by NUTS 3 region (demo_r_pjanaggr3). Retrieved 2026-10-08.