Metropolitan areas of Italy

Not to be confused with Metropolitan cities of Italy.

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 the Italian republic. Since in Italy there is no unique definition of metropolitan area, below are given definition according to several sources.

Metropolitan areas according to alternative studies

Data by OECD (2010) ^[1]

City	Pop. World Rank	Population	Area (km2)	Density (inh./km2)	GDP 2010 (million USD)	GDP per capita 2010 (USD)
Bari	200	744,564	1,100.98	676.88	12,166.99	21,053.84
Bologna	195	778,849	2,036.19	376.00	28,942.43	38,835.60
Catania	229	656,610	609.35	1,028.40	11,189.23	17,943.80
Florence	190	807,673	1,737.87	486.12	24,888.82	34,416.56
Genoa	203	706,159	1,113.59	633.10	22,109.58	30,872.44
Milan	24	4,060,624	2,637.77	1,539.41	180,506.08	44,452.79
Naples	32	3,552,568	1,558.57	2,279.37	61,820.42	17,401.62
Palermo	145	1,035,921	835.58	1,120.08	18,492.21	19,758.31
Rome	26	4,008,095	5,686.46	704.84	142,053.82	35,441.73
Turin	72	1,747,614	1,781.34	981.06	54,538.34	31,207.31
Venice	259	541,969	1,089.17	497.59	17,097.93	31,547.79

Data by Global MetroMonitor (2012) ^[2]

City	Population	GDP 2012 (million USD)	GDP per capita 2012 (USD)	Employment
Bologna	836,014	32.8	39,194	441,099
Florence	1,490,636	51.6	34,640	710,932
Genoa	911,726	30.1	33,003	381,883
Milan	7,626,467	289.3	37,938	3,588,796
Naples	4,460,993	83.6	18,749	1,286,022
Rome	4,328,236	167.8	38,765	2,086,794
Turin	2,338,339	76.6	32,775	1,071,747
Venice-Padua	1,642,986	57.9	35,252	769,887

Urban Outlook 2015 by CityRailways ^[3]

City	Population January 1, 2014	Area (km2)	Density (inh./km2)
Milan	6,623,798	4,450.11	1,488
Naples	5,294,546	3,116.52	1,699
Rome	4,447,881	3,340.41	1,332
Turin	1,865,284	1,328.40	1,404
Venice-Padua	1,645,900	2,063.44	768
Florence	1,485,030	2,124.22	699
Bari	1,257,459	2,194.62	573
Palermo	1,183,084	1,237.26	956
Catania	988,240	771.32	1,281
Brescia	924,090	1,287.18	718
Genoa	861,318	721.81	1,193
Messina-Reggio Calabria	828,507	1,405.42	590
Rimini	748,352	927.20	807
Bologna	692,710	1,034.18	670
Modena	588,998	964.48	611
Verona	583,069	862.26	676
Pisa-Livorno	571,559	1,079.84	529
Pescara	529,070	979.88	540
Versilia	522,092	696.73	749
Vicenza	480,392	691.38	695
Cagliari	452,816	895.28	506
Taranto	439,730	1,000.65	439
Trieste	409,905	572.58	716
Ancona	408,358	854.48	478
Perugia	348,952	1,135.07	307
Lecce	345,476	768.65	449
Reggio nell'Emilia	307,817	658.75	467
Parma	305,826	682.46	448

See also

• Metropolitan cities of Italy
• List of cities in Italy
• List of metropolitan areas in Europe

References

1. "OECD 2010".
2. "Data Global MetroMonitor 2012". Archived from the original on 2013-06-05.
3. "Urban Outlook 2015 by CityRailways" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-01-06. Retrieved 2015-06-01.