Metropolitan areas of Italy

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The metropolitan areas of Italy are statistical areas denoting a region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its less-populated surrounding territories in Italy. Despite their sociodemographic importance, there is no legal recognition for these areas, which are defined statistically.

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Functional urban areas according to OECD

This is a list of FUAs in Italy with a population of at least 500.000 according to OECD [1] (2024).

CityPopulationArea
(km2)		Density
(inh./km2)		GDP 2021
(million USD, PPP)		GDP per capita 2021
(USD, PPP)
Milan 4.981.4213.1151.599384.89777.534
Rome 4.306.1586.160699254.66359.216
Naples 3.286.0431.2852.557104.73031.420
Turin 1.707.8751.7031.00393.00454.257
Palermo 980.3151.49265731.03431.362
Bologna 788.2472.03238852.40866.433
Florence 786.3941.85042548.40861.826
Bari 722.3721.12764126.71837.050
Genoa 681.2551.19557038.09956.002
Catania 640.3136101.04919.43630.754
Venice 545.62366182526.22447.544
Padua 535.96361487330.48857.131
Verona 515.38073270428.83255.961

Functional urban areas according to Eurostat

This is a list of FUAs in Italy with a population of at least 500.000 according to Eurostat [2] (2024).

CityPopulation
Milan 5.071.521
Rome 4.383.028
Naples 3.377.568
Turin 1.776.003
Palermo 993.319
Bologna 867.584
Catania 826.116
Florence 792.929
Genoa 685.380
Bari 684.089
Padua 562.386
Verona 559.770
Bergamo 548.697
Venice 545.496

Metropolitan areas according to older studies

Data by OECD (2010) [3]

CityPop. World RankPopulationArea
(km2)		Density
(inh./km2)		GDP 2010
(million USD)		GDP per capita 2010
(USD)
Bari 200744,5641,100.98676.8812,166.9921,053.84
Bologna 195778,8492,036.19376.0028,942.4338,835.60
Catania 229656,610609.351,028.4011,189.2317,943.80
Florence 190807,6731,737.87486.1224,888.8234,416.56
Genoa 203706,1591,113.59633.1022,109.5830,872.44
Milan 244,060,6242,637.771,539.41180,506.0844,452.79
Naples 323,552,5681,558.572,279.3761,820.4217,401.62
Palermo 1451,035,921835.581,120.0818,492.2119,758.31
Rome 264,008,0955,686.46704.84142,053.8235,441.73
Turin 721,747,6141,781.34981.0654,538.3431,207.31
Venice 259541,9691,089.17497.5917,097.9331,547.79

Data by Global MetroMonitor (2012) [4]

CityPopulationGDP 2012
(million USD)		GDP per capita 2012
(USD)		Employment
Bologna 836,01432.839,194441,099
Florence 1,490,63651.634,640710,932
Genoa 911,72630.133,003381,883
Milan 7,626,467289.337,9383,588,796
Naples 4,460,99383.618,7491,286,022
Rome 4,328,236167.838,7652,086,794
Turin 2,338,33976.632,7751,071,747
Venice-Padua 1,642,98657.935,252769,887

Urban Outlook 2015 by CityRailways [5]

CityPopulation
January 1, 2014		Area
(km2)		Density
(inh./km2)
Milan 6,623,7984,450.111,488
Naples 5,294,5463,116.521,699
Rome 4,447,8813,340.411,332
Turin 1,865,2841,328.401,404
Venice-Padua 1,645,9002,063.44768
Florence 1,485,0302,124.22699
Bari 1,257,4592,194.62573
Palermo 1,183,0841,237.26956
Catania 988,240771.321,281
Brescia 924,0901,287.18718
Genoa 861,318721.811,193
Messina-Reggio Calabria 828,5071,405.42590
Rimini 748,352927.20807
Bologna 692,7101,034.18670
Modena 588,998964.48611
Verona 583,069862.26676
Pisa-Livorno 571,5591,079.84529
Pescara 529,070979.88540
Versilia 522,092696.73749
Vicenza 480,392691.38695
Cagliari 452,816895.28506
Taranto 439,7301,000.65439
Trieste 409,905572.58716
Ancona 408,358854.48478
Perugia 348,9521,135.07307
Lecce 345,476768.65449
Reggio nell'Emilia 307,817658.75467
Parma 305,826682.46448

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Regions, cities and local statistics". OECD. Retrieved 2025-12-14.
  2. ↑ "Table A.5 Number of Functional Urban Areas and share of national population in urban areas". doi.org. Retrieved 2025-12-14.
  3. ↑ "OECD 2010".
  4. ↑ "Data Global MetroMonitor 2012". Archived from the original on 2013-06-05.
  5. ↑ "Urban Outlook 2015 by CityRailways" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-01-06. Retrieved 2015-06-01.
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