Northwest Italy

Northwest 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.

Northwest Italy is defined only for statistical and for some elections.

Geography
Northwest Italy borders to the west with France, to the north with Switzerland and to the east with Northeast Italy (Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, Veneto and Emilia-Romagna). To the south is Toscana (Central Italy), a short distance, and the Ligurian Sea.

The Alps are in the northern part of the region and the northern Apennines in the south. The highest point in the region and in Italy is Mont Blanc (), in the Alps (Valle d'Aosta) on the border with France; it is  high.

Northwest Italy has an important 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 24 provinces and 1,789  comuniː

 Region  Capital  Population(2016)  Area(km²)  Density(inh./km²)  Provinces  ComuniLiguria Genoa  1,571,053  5,416.21    4  235Lombardy Milan  10,008,349  23,863.65    12  1,524Piedmont Turin  4,404,246  25,387.07    8  1,201Valle d'Aosta Aosta  127,329  3,260.90    1  74Total 16,110,977  57,927.83    25  3,034

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

 Comune  Population  Province  Region Milan 1,345,851 Milan Lombardy Turin890,529 Turin Piedmont Genoa586,655 Genoa Liguria Brescia196,480 Brescia Lombardy Monza122,671 Monza and Brianza Lombardy Bergamo119,381 Bergamo Lombardy Novara104,380 Novara Piedmont

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

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