Italy Map with Regions

Italy is divided into 20 regions, its first administrative level, and the map above shows each one as a separate shape. Sicily, Sardinia, Trentino-Alto Adige, Aosta Valley and Friuli Venezia Giulia have a special statute, and the other fifteen have an ordinary one. On 1 January 2025 the regions had a combined 58,943,464 residents (Eurostat). Below them are roughly 110 second-level units, among them 15 metropolitan cities, Sicily's six free municipal consortia and Friuli Venezia Giulia's four regional decentralization entities, and 7,894 municipalities (ISTAT, 2026). The 1948 Constitution provided for the regions, and the ordinary ones began functioning as elected bodies in 1970.

Sicily is the largest Italian region by area at 25,832 km² (9,974 sq mi) according to ISTAT, which is 8.6% of the national 302,068 km² (116,629 sq mi). Piedmont comes second with 25,387 km² (9,802 sq mi), followed by Sardinia at 24,100 km² (9,305 sq mi) and Lombardy at 23,864 km² (9,214 sq mi). As a special statute region, Sicily organizes its second-level administration into six free municipal consortia and the metropolitan cities of Palermo, Catania and Messina.

Lombardy (Lombardia) is the most populated region in Italy, with 10,033,918 residents on 1 January 2025 (Eurostat), roughly 17% of the country's 58,943,464. Milan is its regional capital and the main financial center of Italy. Lazio follows with 5,709,178 residents and Campania with 5,582,337 on the same date. Lombardy recorded 50,400 EUR of GDP per capita in 2024, second only to Trentino-Alto Adige, and an unemployment rate of 3% in 2025 (Eurostat). Its land area of 23,864 km² (9,214 sq mi) gives a density of about 420 people per km².

Five of Italy's 20 regions have a special statute: Sicily, Sardinia, Trentino-Alto Adige, Aosta Valley and Friuli Venezia Giulia. Sicily's statute dates from 1946 and received constitutional rank in 1948, the same year as those of Sardinia, Aosta Valley and Trentino-Alto Adige. Friuli Venezia Giulia followed in 1963. Special statute regions retain larger shares of tax revenue and legislate in fields the 15 ordinary regions do not control. Some also have co-official languages: German in the province of Bolzano, Ladin in the Ladin valleys of Bolzano and in Val di Fassa in Trentino, French in Aosta Valley, and Slovene in parts of Friuli Venezia Giulia. Trentino-Alto Adige had the highest GDP per capita of the 20 in 2024, 54,504 EUR (Eurostat).

With 122,532 residents on 1 January 2025 (Eurostat) and 3,261 km² (1,259 sq mi) of territory (ISTAT), Aosta Valley (Valle d'Aosta) is the least populous Italian region and the smallest by area, at about 38 people per km². Molise (287,814) and Basilicata (530,004) are the next least populous. Aosta Valley has had no provinces since 1945, when the Province of Aosta was abolished, and the regional administration performs provincial functions. Per resident, its GDP of 47,700 EUR in 2024 was the third highest of the 20 regions, and unemployment was 3.9% in 2025 (Eurostat).

Rome, the capital of Italy, is in Lazio. Lazio covers 17,232 km² (6,653 sq mi) according to ISTAT and had 5,709,178 residents on 1 January 2025 (Eurostat), the second largest regional population after Lombardy. GDP per capita in Lazio was 43,200 EUR in 2024 and the unemployment rate 5.5% in 2025 (Eurostat). Vatican City is an independent state enclaved within Rome and belongs to no Italian region. San Marino, the other enclaved state, is surrounded by Emilia-Romagna and Marche. Neither state is shown as a region on this map.

Italy's 20 regions form the first administrative tier, each with an elected council, a president and legislative powers. Provinces and their equivalents make up the tier underneath, about 110 units once Sardinia's 2025 reform entered the ISTAT codes on 1 January 2026. That figure covers 15 metropolitan cities, including Rome, Milan and Naples, Sicily's six free municipal consortia and Friuli Venezia Giulia's four regional decentralization entities. The lowest tier is 7,894 municipalities (comuni) as of 2026. For the finer breakdown of the country, see the Italy provinces map.

Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol is one region of Italy, so it appears as a single shape here, even though most of its powers belong to its two autonomous provinces, Trento and Bolzano. The German name of the region is Trentino-Südtirol, Trentino-South Tyrol in English. Südtirol by itself refers only to the province of Bolzano, where German is co-official, while Ladin is co-official in the Ladin valleys of Bolzano and in Val di Fassa in Trentino. Combined, the region had 1,086,252 residents on 1 January 2025, 54,504 EUR of GDP per capita in 2024 and 2% unemployment in 2025 (Eurostat).

To create a custom map of Italy, use the editor on this page. Click a single region to set its fill by hand, or paste a column of values covering all 20 regions and the editor builds a color scale and legend from them. Mark cities or branch locations with pins, rename or hide region labels, and adjust border width, fonts and background. Using the editor is free and needs no account. A free export is a standard-size PNG with a small Ultimaps credit, while SVG, PDF and high-resolution PNG files require the Pro plan.