Northwest Italy
Northwest Italy
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| Country | Italy |
| Regions | |
| Area | |
| • Total | 57,950 km2 (22,370 sq mi) |
| Population | |
| • Estimate (2022) | 15,817,057 |
| Languages | |
| – Official language | Italian |
| – 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 NUTS1 level region.
Northwest Italy is defined only for statistical and for some elections.
Geography
[change | change source]Northwest Italy borders to the west with France, to the north with Switzerland and to the east with Northeast Italy (Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, Veneto and Emilia-Romagna). To the south is Toscana (Central Italy), a short distance, and the Ligurian Sea.
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The Alps are in the northern part of the region and the northern Apennines in the south. The highest point in the region and in Italy is Mont Blanc (45°49′58″N 6°51′53″E / 45.83278°N 6.86472°E), in the Alps (Valle d'Aosta) on the border with France; it is 4,810 metres (15,780 ft) high.[3]
Northwest Italy has an important part of the valley of the Po river (Italian: Pianura Padana). The Po is the longest river of Northeast Italy and of Italy.
Regions
[change | change source]Central Italy encompasses four of the 20 regions of Italy, including 24 provinces and 1,789 comuniː
| Region | Capital | Population[4] (2016) |
Area[5] (km²) |
Density (inh./km²) |
Provinces | Comuni |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liguria | Genoa | 1,571,053 | 5,416.21 | 290.1 | 4 | 235 |
| Lombardy | Milan | 10,008,349 | 23,863.65 | 419.4 | 12 | 1,524 |
| Piedmont | Turin | 4,404,246 | 25,387.07 | 173.5 | 8 | 1,201 |
| Valle d'Aosta | Aosta | 127,329 | 3,260.90 | 39.0 | 1 | 74 |
| Total | 16,110,977 | 57,927.83 | 278.1 | 25 | 3,034 | |
The comuni with more than 100,000 persons living in them areː
| Comune | Population[4] | Province | Region |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milan | 1,345,851 | Milan | Lombardy |
| Turin | 890,529 | Turin | Piedmont |
| Genoa | 586,655 | Genoa | Liguria |
| Brescia | 196,480 | Brescia | Lombardy |
| Monza | 122,671 | Monza and Brianza | Lombardy |
| Bergamo | 119,381 | Bergamo | Lombardy |
| Novara | 104,380 | Novara | Piedmont |
Related pages
[change | change source]- NUTS level 1:
- Northwest Italy
- Northeast Italy
- Central Italy
- South Italy
- Insular Italy
- Northern Italy
- Southern Italy
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Bilancio demografico e popolazione residente per sesso al 31 dicembre 2022" (in Italian). Retrieved 29 July 2023.
- ↑ "Legge 482". Webcitation.org. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 2015-10-17.
- ↑ "Mont Blanc, France/Italy". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 27 January 2017.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Statistiche demografiche ISTAT" (in Italian). Demo.istat.it. Archived from the original on 26 June 2017. Retrieved 27 January 2017.
- ↑ "Regioni italiane" (in Italian). Tuttitalia.it. Retrieved 27 January 2017.