Area and Population
According to the data of the last official census in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1910, the County had an area of 2918 km² and 260,721 inhabitants, of which around 20% lived in urban areas (Gorizia, Gradisca, Monfalcone, Cormons, Cervignano, Ronchi, Grado), around 15% in semi-urban settlements (Solkan, Duino, Ajdovščina, Bovec, Kobarid, Tolmin, Sežana, Kanal ob Soči) and around 65% in rural areas. The historical demography of the region was the following one:
| Census | Ethnic structure | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Population of Gorizia-Gradisca |
Slovenes | % | Italians and Friulians |
% | Germans | % |
| 1818 | 144,008 | n.a. | n.a. | n.a. | |||
| 1857 | 196,279 | 130,748 | 66.6% | 62,975 | 32.1% | 2,320 | 1.2% |
| 1890 | 222,000 | 145,000 | 65.3% | 73,000 | 32.9% | 3,000 | 1.4% |
| 1910 | 260,721 | 154,564 | 59.3% | 90,119 | 34.6% | 4,486 | 1.7% |
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