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Northwest Italy

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Coordinates:45°30′N9°00′E / 45.500°N 9.000°E /45.500; 9.000

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Official statistical region of Italy

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

Place in Italy

Northwest Italy Italia nord-occidentale (Italian) Nord-ovest (Italian)

Country	Italy
Regions	List Aosta Valley Liguria Lombardy Piedmont
Area
• Total	57,950 km² (22,370 sq mi)
Population (2025)^[1]
• Total	15,923,805
• Density	274.8/km² (711.7/sq mi)
Languages
– Official language	Italian
–Official linguistic minorities^[2]	Franco-Provençal French Occitan
– Regional languages	Ligurian Lombard Piedmontese

Northwest Italy (Italian:Italia nord-occidentale or justNord-ovest) is one of the five official statistical regions ofItaly used by theNational Institute of Statistics (ISTAT), afirst level NUTS region and aEuropean Parliament constituency. Northwest encompasses four of thecountry's 20 regions:

Geography

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It borders to the west withFrance via theWestern Alps, to the north withSwitzerland via theCentral Alps, to the east with the regions ofTrentino-Alto Adige,Veneto andEmilia-Romagna belonging toNortheast Italy and to the south with theLigurian Sea and the extreme offshoot ofTuscany inCentral Italy. Northwest Italy includes a large part of thePo Valley and is crossed by thePo river, the longest inItaly.

Demography

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

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
1861	6,834,069	—
1871	7,425,893	+8.7%
1881	7,841,835	+5.6%
1901	8,803,296	+12.3%
1911	9,591,567	+9.0%
1921	10,046,568	+4.7%
1931	10,559,721	+5.1%
1936	10,804,917	+2.3%

Year	Pop.	±%
1951	11,745,432	+8.7%
1961	13,156,710	+12.0%
1971	14,938,428	+13.5%
1981	15,290,929	+2.4%
1991	14,950,859	−2.2%
2001	14,938,562	−0.1%
2011	15,765,567	+5.5%
2021	15,831,941	+0.4%

Source:ISTAT^[3]^[4]

Regions

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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

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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

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Thegross 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]

References

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^^a ^b"Monthly Demographic Balance".ISTAT.
^"Legge 482". Webcitation.org. Archived fromthe original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved17 October 2015.
^"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.
^"Dashboard Permanent census of population and housing".ISTAT.
^Cite error: The named referencepopulation2 was invoked but never defined (see thehelp page).
^"Regional GDP per capita ranged from 30% to 263% of the EU average in 2018".Eurostat.

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