Northeast Italy

Northeast Italy ( or just ) is one of the five official statistical regions of Italy used by the National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT), a NUTS1 level region.

Geography
Northeast Italy borders to the north with Switzerland and Austria; to the east with Slovenia; to the south with Liguria (Northwest Italy), Tuscany (Central Italy), Marche (Central Italy) and San Marino; and to the west with Lombardy (Northwest Italy) and, for a very short distance, with Piedmont (Northwest Italy).

Emilia-Romagna, Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Veneto have a coast in the Adriatic Sea

The Alps are in the northern part of the region and the northern Apennines in the south. The highest point, in the region, is Ortles (), in the Alps (Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol); it is  high.

Northeast Italy has the most part of the valley of the Po river (). The Po is the longest river of Northeast Italy and of Italy.

Regions
Central Italy encompasses four of the 20 regions of Italy, including 36 provinces and 934  comuniː

 Region Capital Population(2016) Area(km²) Density(inh./km²) Provinces ComuniEmilia-Romagna Bologna  4,448,146  22,452.78    9  333Friuli-Venezia Giulia Trieste  1,221,218  7,862.30    4  216Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol Trento  1,059,114  13,605.50    2  293Veneto Venice  4,915,123  18,407.42    21  92Total 11,643,601  62,328.00     36  934

The 10 comuni with more people living in them areː

 Comune  Population  Province  Region Bologna 386,663 Bologna Emilia-Romagna Venice263,352 Venice Veneto Verona258,765 Verona Veneto Padua210,401 Padua Veneto Trieste204,420 Trieste Friuli-Venezia Giulia Parma192,836 Parma Emilia-Romagna Modena184,973 Modena Emilia-Romagna Reggio Emilia171,345 Reggio Emilia Emilia-Romagna Ravenna159,116 Ravenna Emilia-Romagna Rimini147,750 Rimini Emilia-Romagna

Related pages
 NUTS level 1:
 Northwest Italy
 Northeast Italy
 Central Italy
 South Italy
 Insular Italy
 Northern Italy
 Southern Italy

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