List of the regions of Italy and their cities

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The regions of Italy

Italy is is divided into regioni. The regions of Italy are 20. Each region have a city seat of the regional administration, known as il capoluogo. The capoluogo is the capital city of a region. Italy has one capitale (Roma), but 20 capoluoghi, one for each region.

For example Firenze is the capoluogo of Toscana and Roma, besides being the capital of Italy, is the capoluogo of Lazio.

Do you know the names of the 20 Italian regions and their capoluoghi?

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	Matera
Calabria	Catanzaro
Sicilia	Palermo
Sardegna	Cagliari

Regioni, province e comuni

1. Regioni
2. Province | Città metropolitane
3. Comuni

As we have seen, Italy is divided into 20 regioni. Each region is divided into province, which are named after the city seat of the provincinal government: Provincia di Pisa, Provincia di Como, Provincia di Trieste.

Each provincia administrates many towns and villages: these are the comuni.

Some particularly big cities, like Florence, are città metropolitane and similar to province they also administrate comuni.

In the following table you can find the 1) Regions of Italy; 2) Capital cities; 3) Status (ordinary or special, that is, they have more autonomy); 4) Population; 5) Area; 6) Density; 7) Number of comuni; 8) Name of province and metropolitan cities.

Regione	Capoluogo	Statuto	Popolazione (abitanti)*	Superficie (km²)	Densità (ab/km²)	Comuni	Province e città metropolitane
Valle d’Aosta	Aosta	speciale	125 606	3 261	39	74	Aosta
Piemonte	Torino	ordinario	4 356 406	25 387	172	1 181	Alessandria, Asti, Biella, Cuneo, Novara, Torino, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Vercelli
Lombardia	Milano	ordinario	10 041 828	23 863	422	1 506	Bergamo, Brescia, Como, Cremona, Lecco, Lodi, Mantova, Milano, Monza e Brianza, Pavia, Sondrio, Varese
Trentino-Alto Adige	Trento	speciale	1 072 276	13 605	79	282	Bolzano, Trento
Veneto	Venezia	ordinario	4 905 854	18 345	267	563	Belluno, Padova, Rovigo, Treviso, Venezia, Verona, Vicenza
Friuli-Venezia Giulia	Trieste	speciale	1 215 220	7 924	153	215	Gorizia, Pordenone, Trieste, Udine
Liguria	Genova	ordinario	1 550 640	5 416	286	234	Genova, Imperia, La Spezia, Savona
Emilia-Romagna	Bologna	ordinario	4 459 477	22 453	199	328	Bologna, Ferrara, Forlì-Cesena, Modena, Parma, Piacenza, Ravenna, Reggio Emilia, Rimini
Toscana	Firenze	ordinario	3 729 641	22 987	162	273	Arezzo, Firenze, Grosseto, Livorno, Lucca, Massa e Carrara, Pisa, Pistoia, Prato, Siena
Umbria	Perugia	ordinario	882 015	8 464	104	92	Perugia, Terni
Marche	Ancona	ordinario	1 525 271	9 401	162	228	Ancona, Ascoli Piceno, Fermo, Macerata, Pesaro e Urbino
Lazio	Roma	ordinario	5 879 082	17 232	341	378	Frosinone, Latina, Rieti, Roma, Viterbo
Abruzzo	L’Aquila	ordinario	1 311 580	10 831	121	305	Chieti, L’Aquila, Pescara, Teramo
Molise	Campobasso	ordinario	305 617	4 460	68	131	Campobasso, Isernia
Campania	Napoli	ordinario	5 801 692	13 671	424	550	Avellino, Benevento, Caserta, Napoli, Salerno
Puglia	Bari	ordinario	4 029 053	19 541	206	257	Bari, Barletta-Andria-Trani, Brindisi, Lecce, Foggia, Taranto
Basilicata	Matera	ordinario	562 869	10 073	56	131	Matera, Potenza
Calabria	Catanzaro	ordinario	1 947 131	15 221	128	404	Catanzaro, Cosenza, Crotone, Reggio Calabria, Vibo Valentia
Sicilia	Palermo	speciale	4 999 891	25 832	197	390	Agrigento, Caltanissetta, Catania, Enna, Messina, Palermo, Ragusa, Siracusa, Trapani
Sardegna	Cagliari	speciale	1 639 591	24 100	68	377	Cagliari, Nuoro, Oristano, Sassari, Sud Sardegna^[23]
ITALIA	(capitale) ROMA		60 359 546	302 073	200	7914	107

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Data update in January 2019. Source: Wikipedia