NUTS 3 areas of Italy by population

Name: NUTS 3 areas of Italy by population, 2022
Creator: Eurostat, European Commission
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Roma had the highest population of 107 areas in 2022, at 4.22 million. Isernia had the lowest, at 80,564. The median was 380,616 and the figure for Italy was 59.03 million. Source: Eurostat, European Commission.

Highest4,216,874Roma

Lowest80,564Isernia

Median380,616107 areas

Italy59,030,133History

Top 40 areas, 2022

CSV Chart (SVG)

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

Full ranking

Rank	Areas	2022 persons	Change on 2021
1	Roma	4,216,874	-0.3%
2	Milano	3,214,630	-0.8%
3	Napoli	2,988,376	+0.1%
4	Torino	2,208,370	-0.5%
5	Brescia	1,253,157	-0.2%
6	Bari	1,226,784	-0.3%
7	Palermo	1,208,991	0%
8	Bergamo	1,102,997	-0.1%
9	Catania	1,077,515	+0.3%
10	Salerno	1,064,493	-0.1%
11	Bologna	1,010,812	-0.5%
12	Firenze	987,260	-1.1%
13	Padova	929,198	-0.4%
14	Verona	924,024	-0.4%
15	Caserta	905,045	+0.3%
16	Treviso	877,890	-0.3%
17	Varese	877,668	-0.3%
18	Monza e della Brianza	870,407	0%
19	Vicenza	852,139	-0.3%
20	Venezia	836,916	-0.8%
21	Genova	817,402	-0.8%
22	Lecce	775,348	-0.1%
23	Modena	701,751	-0.3%
24	Cosenza	674,543	-0.2%
25	Perugia	640,482	-0.8%
26	Messina	603,229	-0.1%
27	Foggia	599,028	-0.6%
28	Como	594,941	-0.3%
29	Cuneo	580,155	-0.3%
30	Latina	567,439	+0.2%
31	Taranto	559,892	-0.4%
32	Trento	540,958	-0.2%
33	Pavia	534,506	-0.2%
34	Bolzano-Bozen	532,616	-0.4%
35	Reggio nell’Emilia	525,586	-0.3%
36	Reggio Calabria	522,127	-0.3%
37	Udine	518,442	-0.5%
38	Sassari	476,516	0%
39	Frosinone	470,689	-0.4%
40	Ancona	461,687	-0.6%
41	Parma	448,916	-0.2%
42	Cagliari	421,688	0%
43	Trapani	417,220	-0.3%
44	Pisa	417,041	-0.2%
45	Agrigento	415,887	-0.1%
46	Alessandria	407,264	-0.5%
47	Mantova	404,476	-0.4%
48	Avellino	401,451	-0.4%
49	Forlì-Cesena	391,293	-0.3%
50	Siracusa	385,900	-0%
51	Ravenna	385,631	-0.3%
52	Lucca	382,464	-0.4%
53	Brindisi	381,273	-0.2%
54	Barletta-Andria-Trani	380,616	-0.1%
55	Chieti	373,717	-0.4%
56	Novara	361,916	-0.3%
57	Cremona	351,654	-0.2%
58	Pesaro e Urbino	349,818	-1%
59	Potenza	349,616	-0.8%
60	Catanzaro	343,673	-0.2%
61	Ferrara	339,573	-0.7%
62	Rimini	338,369	+0.2%
63	Sud Sardegna	337,178	-0.3%
64	Arezzo	334,926	-0.5%
65	Lecco	332,457	-0.3%
66	Livorno	327,262	-0.5%
67	Ragusa	316,142	+0.4%
68	Pescara	313,631	-0.1%
69	Pordenone	309,473	-0.4%
70	Viterbo	308,737	-0%
71	Macerata	304,986	-0.8%
72	Teramo	299,646	-0.5%
73	Pistoia	289,414	-0.3%
74	L’Aquila	288,956	-0.6%
75	Piacenza	283,435	-0.1%
76	Savona	268,038	-0.6%
77	Benevento	265,055	-0.6%
78	Siena	261,209	-1%
79	Prato	258,123	-2.7%
80	Caltanissetta	251,715	-0.8%
81	Rovigo	228,902	-0.8%
82	Trieste	228,833	-0.8%
83	Lodi	227,327	-0%
84	Terni	218,330	-0.7%
85	Grosseto	217,009	-0.4%
86	La Spezia	215,117	-0.4%
87	Campobasso	211,586	-0.6%
88	Imperia	208,670	-0.3%
89	Asti	208,286	-0.5%
90	Ascoli Piceno	202,365	-0.5%
91	Nuoro	200,376	-0.6%
92	Belluno	198,676	-0.5%
93	Matera	191,552	-0.6%
94	Massa-Carrara	188,483	-0.7%
95	Sondrio	178,784	-0%
96	Biella	170,027	-0.4%
97	Fermo	168,294	-0.8%
98	Vercelli	166,083	-0.3%
99	Crotone	163,553	-0.3%
100	Enna	156,730	-0.6%
101	Verbano-Cusio-Ossola	154,249	-0.4%
102	Oristano	151,655	-0.5%
103	Vibo Valentia	151,558	-0.4%
104	Rieti	151,143	-0.1%
105	Gorizia	137,899	-0.8%
106	Valle d’Aosta/Vallée d’Aoste	123,360	-0.6%
107	Isernia	80,564	-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 4.22 million in 2022, according to Eurostat, European Commission.

Which area has the lowest population?

Isernia, with 80,564 in 2022.

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.