Insular Italy

Insular 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.

Insular Italy is defined only for statistical and for some elections and includes the two main Italian islands: Sicily and Sardinia, together with other small islands and archipelagos next to them.

Geography
Sicily is the largest Mediterranean island with an area of . To the east, it is separated from the Italian mainland by the Strait of Messina, about  wide in the north, and about  wide in the southern part. Its highest point is Mount Etna (), the largest active volcano in Europe with an altitude of . The longest river of the island is the Salso river,  long.

Sardinia is the second largest Mediterranean island with an area of . To the east is the Tyrrhenian Sea that separates the island from mainland Italy, and to the north is the Strait of Bonifacio that separates Sardinia from the French island of Corsica. Its highest point is Punta La Marmora () with an altitude of . The longest river of the island is the Tirso river,  long.

Regions
Insular Italy has 2 of the 20 regions of Italy, including 24 provinces and 1,789  comuniː

 Region  Capital  Population(2016)  Area(km²)  Density(inh./km²)  Provinces  Comuni Sardinia Cagliari  1,658,138  24,100.02    5  377 Sicily Palermo  5,074,261  25,832.39    9  390Total 6,732,399  49,932.41    14  767

The comuni with more than 100,000 persons living in them areː

 Comune  Population  Province  Region Palermo 674,435 Palermo Sicily Catania314,555 Catania Sicily Messina238,439 Messina Sicily Cagliari154,460 Cagliari Sardinia Sassari127,525 Sassari Sardinia Siracusa122,291 Siracusa Sicily

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

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