Northeast Italy

Triveneto (literally "Triple Veneto") is a historical region of Italy. The area is made up of the three smaller historical regions of Venezia Euganea ("Euganean Venetia"), Venezia Giulia ("Julian March") and Venezia Tridentina ("Tridentine Venetia").^[3] This territory was named after the Roman region of Venetia et Histria. The entire area was under Austrian rule in 1863; Italy annexed Venezia Euganea in 1866,^[4] following the Third Italian War of Independence and a controversial plebiscite (see Venetian nationalism); Julian Venetia and Venezia Tridentina passed under the Italian rule in 1919, following the end of World War I.^[5] After World War II, Italy retained the most part of Tre Venezie, but lost Slovenian and Croatian majority areas of the upper Isonzo valley (together with the eastern part of Gorizia, today called Nova Gorica), the city of Fiume, most of the Carso region and most part of Istria to Yugoslavia.^[6] The areas of Trieste (Zone A) and north-west Istria (Zone B) were formed in the Free Territory of Trieste: in 1954, Italy reannexed Zone A, while Zone B was ceded to Yugoslavia. Nowadays the name Triveneto includes the three administrative regions of Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol

Venetia et Histria, an old region of Italy at the time of the Roman Empire, refers to Veneto, Trentino, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, East Lombardy and Istria; it was named after the people of Veneti, who inhabited that region, and who are still largely the main ethnic group of the Italian area (other main ethnic groups include Friulani in the east, mostly in the Udine province; Ladins in the Dolomites, between Veneto and Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol; Germans in South Tyrol; and Slovene minorities on the border with Slovenia and in the city of Trieste); after 1947, Venetian/Istrian Italians became a minority in Slovenian and Croatian Istria. Roman Venetia et Histria was originally created by Augustus as the tenth regio in 7 AD alongside the nine other regiones. The region had been one of the last regions of Italy to be incorporated into the Roman Empire.^[7] It was later renamed by Diocletian the VIII provincia Venetia et Histria in the third century. Its capital was at Aquileia, and it stretched geographically from the Arsia River in the east (in what is now Croatia) to the Abdua in the current Italian region of Lombardy, and from the Alps to the Adriatic Sea.^[8] Venetia—a region which indicated the old land provinces of the Republic of Venice from river Adda to river Isonzo—is sometimes still used today to indicate this territory together with Trentino and Trieste.

It borders to the north with Austria and Switzerland, to the east with Slovenia, to the south with Liguria, Tuscany, Marche and the small state of San Marino, to the west with Lombardy and for a very short stretch with Piedmont. Emilia-Romagna, Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Veneto are washed by the Adriatic Sea.

Northeastern Italy includes most of the Po Valley, crossed by the Po river, the longest river in Italy, and includes highly industrialized regions with a high tourist activity.

Northeast Italy has 11,597,719 inhabitants as of 2025.^{[citation needed]}

Regions

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Region	Capital	Inhabitants	Area (km²)	Density (inh/km²)
Emilia-Romagna	Bologna	4,465,678	22,446	199
Friuli-Venezia Giulia	Trieste	1,194,095	7,924	150
Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol	Trento	1,086,095	13,606	79
Veneto	Venice	4,851,851	18,345	264

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Most populous municipalities

Below is the list of the most populous municipalities with more than 50,000 inhabitants.^{[citation needed]}

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#	Municipality	Region	Inhabitants
1	Bologna	Emilia-Romagna	390,734
2	Verona	Veneto	255,133
3	Venice	Veneto	249,466
4	Padua	Veneto	207,694
5	Parma	Emilia-Romagna	198,986
6	Trieste	Friuli-Venezia Giulia	198,668
7	Modena	Emilia-Romagna	184,739
8	Reggio Emilia	Emilia-Romagna	172,518
9	Ravenna	Emilia-Romagna	156,444
10	Rimini	Emilia-Romagna	150,630
11	Ferrara	Emilia-Romagna	129,384
12	Trento	Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol	118,911
13	Forlì	Emilia-Romagna	117,609
14	Vicenza	Veneto	110,492
15	Bolzano	Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol	106,463
16	Piacenza	Emilia-Romagna	103,464
17	Udine	Friuli-Venezia Giulia	98,320
18	Cesena	Emilia-Romagna	95,887
19	Treviso	Veneto	85,770
20	Carpi	Emilia-Romagna	73,324
21	Imola	Emilia-Romagna	69,350
22	Faenza	Emilia-Romagna	58,800
23	Pordenone	Friuli-Venezia Giulia	52,371

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The main language is Italian. Other languages include:

• Venetian – widely spoken in Veneto and along the coast to Trieste and Istria, as well as in the towns of Pordenone and Gorizia in Friuli, and in most of Trentino, but only recognised by the Veneto region;

• Friulian – spoken in most of Friuli and nationally recognized;

• Ladin – spoken by a few thousand people in the Dolomites;

• German – the primary language of South Tyrol, where Italian is spoken by about two thirds of the inhabitants;

• Slovene – recognized by Italy and spoken on the border of Italy and Istria, where the main language today is Croatian but Italian is recognized as a minority language due to the presence of the Istrian Italians.

The Gross domestic product (GDP) of the region was 407.9 billion euros in 2018, accounting for 23.1% of Italy's economic output. GDP per capita adjusted for purchasing power was 34,900 euros or 116% of the EU27 average in the same year.^[11]

• NUTS statistical regions of Italy
• Italian NUTS level 1 regions:
  • Northwest Italy
  • South Italy
  • Insular Italy
• Northern Italy
• Central Italy
• Southern Italy