Italy's 100 Largest Cities: Every City Above 60,000 Residents

Italy has exactly 100 municipalities with more than 60,000 residents, and together they are home to 18,099,934 people, about 31% of the country’s population, on only 6% of its land (18,844 km²).

The top of the ranking is steep. Rome (2,770,226) is more than twice the size of Milan (1,374,582), and the ten largest cities hold 8,507,068 people, about 14% of Italy. Cities 11 to 50 add another 5.9 million. The 50 cities from Lecce (95,037) down to Crotone (60,123) hold 3.7 million. The data is Istat’s resident population on 1 January 2021, and the full cleaned table of all 100 cities is at the end.

Regions: Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna lead with 12 cities each

Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna each have 12 cities above 60,000 residents, followed by Tuscany (11), Campania and Sicily (9 each), Puglia (8) and Lazio (7). Calabria has 6, Veneto 5, Piedmont 4, and Sardinia and Marche 3 each. Liguria, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Umbria, Trentino-Alto Adige and Abruzzo have 2, and Basilicata has only Potenza. Molise and Valle d’Aosta have none.

The counts do not simply follow regional population. Veneto, with 4.9 million residents, has only five large cities (Verona, Venice, Padua, Vicenza and Treviso). Calabria, with 1.9 million, has six. Emilia-Romagna, by contrast, has every provincial capital on the list: Bologna, Parma, Modena, Reggio Emilia, Ravenna, Rimini, Ferrara, Forlì, Cesena and Piacenza, plus Carpi and Imola.

Tuscany’s 11 include coastal towns such as Livorno, Pisa, Grosseto, Viareggio and Carrara, alongside Florence, Prato, Arezzo, Pistoia, Lucca and Massa.

Beyond the capitals: the Naples belt

The biggest non-capital town is Giugliano in Campania, 34th overall with 122,364 residents. Next come Guidonia Montecelio near Rome (87,875), Busto Arsizio near Milan (83,045), Torre del Greco (81,655), Marsala (80,661), Sesto San Giovanni (80,203) and Fiumicino (79,995).

The list shows how the big metropolitan areas spill into neighbouring towns. The province of Naples has seven cities above 60,000: Naples itself, Giugliano in Campania, Torre del Greco, Pozzuoli, Casoria, Castellammare di Stabia and Afragola. Rome’s province has four (Rome, Guidonia Montecelio, Fiumicino and Pomezia) and Milan’s has three (Milan, Sesto San Giovanni and Cinisello Balsamo). Many other provinces have two cities on the list, such as Bologna and Imola, Modena and Carpi, Bari and Altamura, Cagliari and Quartu Sant’Elena, Lucca and Viareggio, Pavia and Vigevano, or Trapani and Marsala.

Density and size: tiny towns packed tight, big cities with room to spare

Naples (7,752 inhabitants per km²) and Milan (7,566) are the densest cities, but third place goes to a smaller town, Sesto San Giovanni (6,855), ahead of Turin (6,598). Casoria (6,106) is fifth and Cinisello Balsamo (5,866) sixth. Sesto San Giovanni covers just 11.70 km², Casoria 12.14 km² and Cinisello Balsamo 12.72 km², the three smallest territories on the list, each with more than 74,000 residents.

At the other end, the least dense cities are L’Aquila (146 per km²), Altamura (162), Ragusa and Viterbo (163 each) and Grosseto (172). L’Aquila (473.91 km²) and Grosseto (473.53 km²) are also among the largest territories, behind only Rome (1,287.24 km²), Ravenna (653.81 km²), Sassari (547.03 km²) and Foggia (509.25 km²).

Altitude varies just as much. Fiumicino sits at 1 m above sea level, while Potenza, the highest of the 100, is at 819 m, followed by L’Aquila (714 m), Ragusa (502 m) and Perugia (493 m).

The full data

All 100 Italian cities with more than 60,000 residents on 1 January 2021, sorted by population. Prov. is the two-letter province code and Reg. the region (LAZ Lazio, LOM Lombardy, CAM Campania, PIE Piedmont, SIC Sicily, LIG Liguria, EMR Emilia-Romagna, TOS Tuscany, PUG Puglia, VEN Veneto, FVG Friuli Venezia Giulia, CAL Calabria, UMB Umbria, SAR Sardinia, TAA Trentino-Alto Adige, ABR Abruzzo, MAR Marche, BAS Basilicata).

Rank	City	Prov.	Reg.	Residents	Surface (km²)	Density (inh./km²)	Altitude (m)
1	Rome	RM	LAZ	2,770,226	1,287.24	2,152	20
2	Milan	MI	LOM	1,374,582	181.68	7,566	122
3	Naples	NA	CAM	922,094	118.94	7,752	17
4	Turin	TO	PIE	858,205	130.06	6,598	239
5	Palermo	PA	SIC	637,885	160.59	3,972	14
6	Genoa	GE	LIG	566,410	240.29	2,357	19
7	Bologna	BO	EMR	391,686	140.86	2,781	54
8	Florence	FI	TOS	368,419	102.32	3,601	50
9	Bari	BA	PUG	317,205	117.41	2,702	5
10	Catania	CT	SIC	300,356	182.80	1,643	7
11	Verona	VR	VEN	258,031	198.91	1,297	59
12	Venice	VE	VEN	256,083	415.89	616	2
13	Messina	ME	SIC	222,329	213.76	1,040	3
14	Padua	PD	VEN	209,730	93.03	2,255	12
15	Prato	PO	TOS	201,410	97.35	2,069	61
16	Trieste	TS	FVG	200,609	85.10	2,357	2
17	Brescia	BS	LOM	197,304	90.33	2,184	149
18	Parma	PR	EMR	195,998	260.60	752	57
19	Taranto	TA	PUG	190,717	249.86	763	15
20	Modena	MO	EMR	186,414	183.17	1,018	34
21	Reggio Calabria	RC	CAL	173,026	239.04	724	31
22	Reggio Emilia	RE	EMR	170,601	230.68	740	58
23	Perugia	PG	UMB	164,721	449.61	366	493
24	Ravenna	RA	EMR	156,463	653.81	239	4
25	Livorno	LI	TOS	155,370	104.71	1,484	3
26	Rimini	RN	EMR	150,240	135.79	1,106	5
27	Cagliari	CA	SAR	149,572	84.58	1,768	6
28	Foggia	FG	PUG	147,467	509.25	290	76
29	Ferrara	FE	EMR	131,669	405.14	325	9
30	Salerno	SA	CAM	129,206	59.85	2,159	4
31	Latina	LT	LAZ	127,560	277.62	459	21
32	Monza	MB	LOM	122,522	33.09	3,703	162
33	Sassari	SS	SAR	122,506	547.03	224	225
34	Giugliano in Campania	NA	CAM	122,364	94.63	1,293	97
35	Bergamo	BG	LOM	119,993	40.15	2,989	249
36	Trento	TN	TAA	118,879	157.87	753	194
37	Pescara	PE	ABR	118,766	34.33	3,459	4
38	Forlì	FC	EMR	117,407	228.20	514	34
39	Siracusa	SR	SIC	117,053	207.82	563	17
40	Vicenza	VI	VEN	111,113	80.58	1,379	39
41	Terni	TR	UMB	107,982	212.43	508	130
42	Bolzano	BZ	TAA	107,467	52.29	2,055	262
43	Piacenza	PC	EMR	102,731	118.23	869	61
44	Novara	NO	PIE	102,225	103.05	992	162
45	Ancona	AN	MAR	99,273	124.87	795	30
46	Udine	UD	FVG	98,156	57.19	1,716	113
47	Andria	BT	PUG	97,489	402.88	242	151
48	Arezzo	AR	TOS	97,373	384.75	253	296
49	Cesena	FC	EMR	96,520	249.46	387	44
50	Pesaro	PU	MAR	95,950	152.81	628	11
51	Lecce	LE	PUG	95,037	238.82	398	49
52	Barletta	BT	PUG	92,787	149.35	621	15
53	La Spezia	SP	LIG	92,441	51.40	1,799	3
54	Alessandria	AL	PIE	91,089	203.57	447	95
55	Pisa	PI	TOS	89,969	185.07	486	4
56	Pistoia	PT	TOS	89,729	236.40	380	67
57	Lucca	LU	TOS	89,378	185.73	481	19
58	Guidonia Montecelio	RM	LAZ	87,875	79.47	1,106	105
59	Catanzaro	CZ	CAL	86,183	112.72	765	320
60	Treviso	TV	VEN	84,837	55.58	1,526	15
61	Como	CO	LOM	84,250	37.14	2,268	201
62	Brindisi	BR	PUG	83,690	333.01	251	13
63	Busto Arsizio	VA	LOM	83,045	30.66	2,709	226
64	Torre del Greco	NA	CAM	81,655	30.66	2,663	43
65	Grosseto	GR	TOS	81,643	473.53	172	10
66	Marsala	TP	SIC	80,661	243.26	332	12
67	Sesto San Giovanni	MI	LOM	80,203	11.70	6,855	140
68	Fiumicino	RM	LAZ	79,995	213.89	374	1
69	Varese	VA	LOM	79,350	54.84	1,447	382
70	Pozzuoli	NA	CAM	77,090	43.43	1,775	28
71	Cinisello Balsamo	MI	LOM	74,636	12.72	5,866	154
72	Corigliano-Rossano	CS	CAL	74,129	346.55	214	210
73	Casoria	NA	CAM	74,115	12.14	6,106	70
74	Asti	AT	PIE	74,065	151.31	489	123
75	Aprilia	LT	LAZ	73,429	178.12	412	80
76	Caserta	CE	CAM	72,813	54.07	1,347	68
77	Ragusa	RG	SIC	72,579	444.71	163	502
78	Gela	CL	SIC	72,491	279.22	260	46
79	Carpi	MO	EMR	71,730	131.54	545	26
80	Cremona	CR	LOM	71,223	70.49	1,010	45
81	Pavia	PV	LOM	71,122	63.25	1,125	77
82	Altamura	BA	PUG	69,911	431.37	162	467
83	Imola	BO	EMR	69,855	205.02	341	47
84	L’Aquila	AQ	ABR	69,349	473.91	146	714
85	Quartu Sant’Elena	CA	SAR	68,640	96.41	712	6
86	Lamezia Terme	CZ	CAL	67,569	162.43	416	216
87	Massa	MS	TOS	66,977	93.84	714	65
88	Viterbo	VT	LAZ	66,113	406.23	163	326
89	Potenza	PZ	BAS	65,420	175.43	373	819
90	Trapani	TP	SIC	65,378	273.13	239	3
91	Cosenza	CS	CAL	64,070	37.86	1,692	238
92	Pomezia	RM	LAZ	63,767	86.57	737	108
93	Castellammare di Stabia	NA	CAM	63,694	17.81	3,576	6
94	Vigevano	PV	LOM	62,340	81.36	766	116
95	Vittoria	RG	SIC	62,051	182.47	340	168
96	Afragola	NA	CAM	61,861	17.91	3,454	43
97	Viareggio	LU	TOS	61,251	32.53	1,883	2
98	Carrara	MS	TOS	60,833	71.28	853	100
99	Fano	PU	MAR	60,136	120.32	500	12
100	Crotone	KR	CAL	60,123	181.99	330	8

Italy's 100 Largest Cities: Every City Above 60,000 Residents

Source: Istat, resident population as of 1 January 2021.

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