Northwest Italy

For the EU constituency, see North-West Italy (European Parliament constituency).

Northwest Italy
Italia nord-occidentale (Italian)
Nord-ovest (Italian)
CountryItaly
Regions
Area
 • Total
57,950 km2 (22,370 sq mi)
Population
 (2025)[1]
 • Total
15,923,805
 • Density270/km2 (710/sq mi)
Languages 
 – Official languageItalian
 – Official linguistic minorities[2]
 – Regional languages

Northwest Italy (Italian: Italia nord-occidentale or just Nord-ovest) is one of the five official statistical regions of Italy used by the National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT), a first level NUTS region and a European Parliament constituency. Northwest encompasses four of the country's 20 regions:

Geography

It borders to the west with France via the Western Alps, to the north with Switzerland via the Central Alps, to the east with the regions of Trentino-Alto Adige, Veneto and Emilia-Romagna belonging to Northeast Italy and to the south with the Ligurian Sea and the extreme offshoot of Tuscany in Central Italy. Northwest Italy includes a large part of the Po Valley and is crossed by the Po river, the longest in Italy.

Demography

Northwest Italy has 15,923,805 inhabitants as of 2025.[1]

Historical population
YearPop.±%
18616,834,069—    
18717,425,893+8.7%
18817,841,835+5.6%
19018,803,296+12.3%
19119,591,567+9.0%
192110,046,568+4.7%
193110,559,721+5.1%
193610,804,917+2.3%
YearPop.±%
195111,745,432+8.7%
196113,156,710+12.0%
197114,938,428+13.5%
198115,290,929+2.4%
199114,950,859−2.2%
200114,938,562−0.1%
201115,765,567+5.5%
202115,831,941+0.4%
Source: ISTAT[3][4]

Regions

Region Capital Inhabitants Area

(km²)

Density

(inh./km²)

Aosta Valley Aosta 122,714 3,263 38
Liguria Genoa 1,509,908 5,422 278
Lombardy Milan 10,035,481 23,844 420
Piedmont Turin 4,255,702 25,402 167

Most populous municipalities

Below is the list of the most populous municipalities with more than 50,000 inhabitants:[5]

# Municipality Region Inhabitants
1 Milan Lombardy 1,366,155
2 Turin Piedmont 856,745
3 Genoa Liguria 563,947
4 Brescia Lombardy 199,949
5 Monza Lombardy 123,131
6 Bergamo Lombardy 120,580
7 Novara Piedmont 102,573
8 La Spezia Liguria 92,711
9 Alessandria Piedmont 92,518
10 Busto Arsizio Lombardy 83,995
11 Como Lombardy 83,228
12 Varese Lombardy 79,018
13 Sesto San Giovanni Lombardy 78,843
14 Cinisello Balsamo Lombardy 74,847
15 Asti Piedmont 73,503
16 Pavia Lombardy 71,556
17 Cremona Lombardy 71,062
18 Vigevano Lombardy 62,845
19 Legnano Lombardy 60,646
20 Savona Liguria 58,690
21 Cuneo Piedmont 55,804
22 Moncalieri Piedmont 55,489
23 Sanremo Liguria 53,033
24 Gallarate Lombardy 52,886
25 Rho Lombardy 50,831

Economy

The gross domestic product (GDP) of the region was 580.3 billion euro in 2018, accounting for 32.9% of Italy's economic output. GDP per capita adjusted for purchasing power was 35,900 euro or 119% of the EU27 average in the same year.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Monthly Demographic Balance". ISTAT.
  2. ^ "Legge 482". Webcitation.org. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  3. ^ "Popolazione residente e presente dei comuni. Censimenti dal 1861 al 1971" [Resident and present population of the municipalities. Censuses from 1861 to 1971] (PDF) (in Italian). ISTAT. 24 October 1971.
  4. ^ "Dashboard Permanent census of population and housing". ISTAT.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference population2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ "Regional GDP per capita ranged from 30% to 263% of the EU average in 2018". Eurostat.

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