List of regions of Italy and their cities

How many regions are there in Italy? Do you know the names of the regional county seats? What are provinces and comuni? Let’s learn more about it.

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Regions of Italy

There are 20 regions in Italy. Each region has a county seat, the city where the regional administration is located. Florence, for example, is the county seat of Tuscany and Rome is the county seat of Lazio. But Rome is also, of course, the capital of Italy.
In Italian, the county seat of the region is called capoluogo, the state capital capitale.

Regions of Italy and their county seats

REGIONE	CAPOLUOGO
Valle d’Aosta	Aosta
Piemonte	Torino
Lombardia	Milano
Trentino-Alto Adige	Trento
Veneto	Venezia
Friuli-Venezia Giulia	Trieste
Liguria	Genova
Emilia-Romagna	Bologna
Toscana	Firenze
Umbria	Perugia
Marche	Ancona
Lazio	Roma
Abruzzo	L’Aquila
Molise	Campobasso
Campania	Napoli
Puglia	Bari
Basilicata	Potenza
Calabria	Catanzaro
Sicilia	Palermo
Sardegna	Cagliari

Province e comuni

Each region of Italy is further divided into provinces (it. province) named after the city seat of the provincial government, e.g. Provincia di Pisa, Provincia di Como, Provincia di Trieste.

Each province administers smaller towns and villages: these are the Comuni.

Example:

Ellie grew up in a small village called Bedero Valcuvia. Bedero Valcuvia is located in the province of Varese. The province of Varese is located in Lombardy.

Some particularly large cities, such as Florence or Milan, are Città Metropolitane and, similar to the province, also administer some Comuni.

Table of regions and provinces of Italy

In the following table you will find 1) the regions of Italy; 2) the names of the Province and Città Metropolitane. In Bold is the county seat of the region; 3) the number of Comuni, that is, all the villages and towns of the region.

A list of all provinces of Italy with their abbreviations can be found here on Wikipedia.

Regione	Province e città metropolitane	Comuni
Valle d’Aosta	Aosta	74
Piemonte	Alessandria, Asti, Biella, Cuneo, Novara, Torino, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Vercelli	1 181
Lombardia	Bergamo, Brescia, Como, Cremona, Lecco, Lodi, Mantova, Milano, Monza e Brianza, Pavia, Sondrio, Varese	1 506
Trentino-Alto Adige	Bolzano, Trento	282
Veneto	Belluno, Padova, Rovigo, Treviso, Venezia, Verona, Vicenza	563
Friuli-Venezia Giulia	Gorizia, Pordenone, Trieste, Udine	215
Liguria	Genova, Imperia, La Spezia, Savona	234
Emilia-Romagna	Bologna, Ferrara, Forlì-Cesena, Modena, Parma, Piacenza, Ravenna, Reggio Emilia, Rimini	328
Toscana	Arezzo, Firenze, Grosseto, Livorno, Lucca, Massa e Carrara, Pisa, Pistoia, Prato, Siena	273
Umbria	Perugia, Terni	92
Marche	Ancona, Ascoli Piceno, Fermo, Macerata, Pesaro e Urbino	228
Lazio	Frosinone, Latina, Rieti, Roma, Viterbo	378
Abruzzo	Chieti, L’Aquila, Pescara, Teramo	305
Molise	Campobasso, Isernia	131
Campania	Avellino, Benevento, Caserta, Napoli, Salerno	550
Puglia	Bari, Barletta-Andria-Trani, Brindisi, Lecce, Foggia, Taranto	257
Basilicata	Matera, Potenza	131
Calabria	Catanzaro, Cosenza, Crotone, Reggio Calabria, Vibo Valentia	404
Sicilia	Agrigento, Caltanissetta, Catania, Enna, Messina, Palermo, Ragusa, Siracusa, Trapani	390
Sardegna	Cagliari, Nuoro, Oristano, Sassari, Sud Sardegna	377
ITALIA	107	7914