Demographics of Italy - Urbanization

Urbanization

See also: Metropolitan areas in Italy and List of cities in Italy by population

Largest cities or towns of Italy ISTAT estimates for 31 December 2010
	Rank	City name	Region	Pop.	Rank	City name	Region	Pop.
Rome Milan	1	Rome	Lazio	2,761,477	11	Venice	Veneto	270,884	Naples Turin
	2	Milan	Lombardy	1,324,110	12	Verona	Veneto	263,964
	3	Naples	Campania	963,357	13	Messina	Sicily	242,503
	4	Turin	Piedmont	907,563	14	Padua	Veneto	214,198
	5	Palermo	Sicily	655,875	15	Trieste	Friuli-Venezia Giulia	205,535
	6	Genoa	Liguria	607,906	16	Brescia	Lombardy	193,879
	7	Bologna	Emilia-Romagna	380,181	17	Taranto	Apulia	191,810
	8	Florence	Tuscany	371,282	18	Prato	Tuscany	188,011
	9	Bari	Apulia	320,475	19	Parma	Emilia-Romagna	186,690
	10	Catania	Sicily	293,458	20	Reggio Calabria	Calabria	186,547

About 68% of Italian population is classified as urban, a relatively low figure among developed countries. During the last two decades, Italy underwent a devolution process, that eventually led to the creation of administrative metropolitan areas, in order to give major cities and their metropolitan areas a provincial status (somehow similar to PRC's direct-controlled municipality). However, none of these new local authorities has yet become fully operative. According to OECD, the largest conurbations are:

• Milan – 7.4 million
• Rome – 3.7 million
• Naples – 3.1 million
• Turin – 2.2 million