NUTS 3 areas of Italy by population

Name: NUTS 3 areas of Italy by population, 2019
Creator: Eurostat, European Commission
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Roma had the highest population of 107 areas in 2019, at 4.26 million. Isernia had the lowest, at 84,027. The median was 383,477 and the figure for Italy was 59.82 million. Source: Eurostat, European Commission.

Highest4,263,542Roma

Lowest84,027Isernia

Median383,477107 areas

Italy59,816,673History

Top 40 areas, 2019

CSV Chart (SVG)

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

Full ranking

Rank	Areas	2019 persons	Change on 2018
1	Roma	4,263,542	+0.1%
2	Milano	3,250,077	+0.5%
3	Napoli	3,048,194	-0.4%
4	Torino	2,238,663	-0.5%
5	Brescia	1,254,419	+0.2%
6	Bari	1,234,997	-0.5%
7	Palermo	1,231,602	-0.6%
8	Bergamo	1,107,159	+0.1%
9	Salerno	1,087,055	-0.4%
10	Catania	1,077,270	-0.4%
11	Bologna	1,017,551	+0.5%
12	Firenze	998,976	-0.4%
13	Padova	933,867	+0.2%
14	Verona	922,857	+0.4%
15	Caserta	915,549	-0%
16	Varese	885,085	0%
17	Treviso	884,173	+0.1%
18	Monza e della Brianza	867,385	+0.2%
19	Vicenza	856,939	-0.1%
20	Venezia	851,057	+0.1%
21	Genova	831,172	-0.6%
22	Lecce	786,408	-0.7%
23	Modena	706,757	+0.7%
24	Cosenza	695,605	-0.5%
25	Perugia	648,829	-0.3%
26	Messina	618,713	-0.9%
27	Foggia	611,518	-0.9%
28	Como	597,807	+0.1%
29	Cuneo	587,213	-0.2%
30	Taranto	568,258	-0.7%
31	Latina	563,271	-0.2%
32	Trento	543,721	+0.3%
33	Pavia	541,717	0%
34	Reggio Calabria	536,487	-0.8%
35	Bolzano-Bozen	530,313	+0.7%
36	Reggio nell’Emilia	529,932	+0.1%
37	Udine	529,230	-0.3%
38	Sassari	486,689	-0.2%
39	Frosinone	480,968	-0.5%
40	Ancona	469,166	-0.3%
41	Parma	452,505	+0.4%
42	Agrigento	428,003	-1%
43	Cagliari	424,105	-0.3%
44	Trapani	424,039	-0.7%
45	Alessandria	420,300	-0.7%
46	Pisa	418,300	-0.3%
47	Avellino	414,109	-1%
48	Mantova	407,851	+0.1%
49	Forlì-Cesena	395,438	+0.4%
50	Siracusa	391,400	-0.7%
51	Ravenna	388,913	-0.3%
52	Brindisi	387,817	-0.7%
53	Barletta-Andria-Trani	386,530	-0.5%
54	Lucca	383,477	-0.5%
55	Chieti	380,675	-0.6%
56	Novara	365,773	-0.3%
57	Potenza	362,452	-0.9%
58	Pesaro e Urbino	358,143	-0.2%
59	Cremona	356,150	0%
60	Catanzaro	352,065	-0.8%
61	Sud Sardegna	347,732	-0.9%
62	Ferrara	345,538	-0.3%
63	Arezzo	340,349	-0.3%
64	Rimini	336,554	+0.5%
65	Lecco	335,554	-0%
66	Livorno	332,887	-0.5%
67	Pescara	317,366	-0.2%
68	Ragusa	315,564	-0.4%
69	Macerata	313,022	-0.6%
70	Viterbo	311,761	-0.4%
71	Pordenone	310,636	+0.2%
72	Teramo	305,291	-0.2%
73	L’Aquila	297,313	-0.6%
74	Pistoia	291,413	+0.3%
75	Piacenza	286,265	0%
76	Benevento	275,384	-0.8%
77	Savona	273,732	-0.7%
78	Siena	266,033	-0.3%
79	Caltanissetta	259,586	-1.4%
80	Prato	256,534	+0.5%
81	Rovigo	233,428	-0.6%
82	Trieste	232,405	+0.1%
83	Lodi	226,949	+0.1%
84	Terni	224,915	-0.5%
85	Grosseto	220,539	-0.3%
86	Campobasso	219,763	-0.8%
87	La Spezia	218,094	-0.2%
88	Asti	213,504	-0.6%
89	Imperia	209,982	-0.5%
90	Ascoli Piceno	207,309	-0.5%
91	Nuoro	207,108	-1%
92	Belluno	202,269	-0.3%
93	Matera	196,135	-0.5%
94	Massa-Carrara	192,835	-0.7%
95	Sondrio	180,680	-0.2%
96	Biella	175,341	-0.8%
97	Fermo	172,681	-0.4%
98	Crotone	171,486	-0.2%
99	Vercelli	170,493	-0.8%
100	Enna	162,371	-1.1%
101	Verbano-Cusio-Ossola	157,278	-0.5%
102	Oristano	156,623	-1%
103	Vibo Valentia	156,378	-0.8%
104	Rieti	153,534	-0.8%
105	Gorizia	138,143	-0.1%
106	Valle d’Aosta/Vallée d’Aoste	125,653	-0.4%
107	Isernia	84,027	-1.1%

Other periods

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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Questions

Which area has the highest population?

Roma, with 4.26 million in 2019, according to Eurostat, European Commission.

Which area has the lowest population?

Isernia, with 84,027 in 2019.

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.