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Italian Regions and Capitals Quiz

A region is named and lit: pick its capital from four cities.

Italian Regions and Capitals Quiz

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What is the capital of Lombardy?

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Write the name of each numbered capital.Answer key

  1. Milan
  2. Turin
  3. Aosta
  4. Genoa
  5. Venice
  6. Bologna
  7. Trento
  8. Trieste
  9. Rome
  10. Florence
  11. Perugia
  12. Ancona
  13. Naples
  14. Bari
  15. L'Aquila
  16. Potenza
  17. Catanzaro
  18. Campobasso
  19. Palermo
  20. Cagliari

Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2. Licence: public domain.

Each capital is a button. Use the arrow keys to move between them and Enter to choose. Names are read out in Study, and once a capital is answered.

Next step Same map, no capitals: find the 20 regionsPrint this map blank, numbered or named

All 20 capitals on the diagram

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North-west 4

  1. Milan Capital of Lombardy and its largest city. Italian name: Milano.
  2. Turin Capital of Piedmont and its largest city. Italian name: Torino.
  3. Aosta Capital of the Aosta Valley, the smallest region of Italy.
  4. Genoa Capital of Liguria and its largest city. Italian name: Genova.

North-east 4

  1. Venice Capital of Veneto. Verona has more people. Italian name: Venezia.
  2. Bologna Capital of Emilia-Romagna and its largest city.
  3. Trento Capital of Trentino-South Tyrol and its largest city.
  4. Trieste Capital of Friuli-Venezia Giulia and its largest city.

Center 4

  1. Rome Capital of Lazio and of Italy. Italian name: Roma.
  2. Florence Capital of Tuscany and its largest city. Italian name: Firenze.
  3. Perugia Capital of Umbria and its largest city.
  4. Ancona Capital of Marche and its largest city.

South 6

  1. Naples Capital of Campania and its largest city. Italian name: Napoli.
  2. Bari Capital of Apulia (Puglia in Italian) and its largest city.
  3. L'Aquila Capital of Abruzzo. Pescara, in the same region, has more people.
  4. Potenza Capital of Basilicata, between the heel and the toe of the boot.
  5. Catanzaro Capital of Calabria. Reggio Calabria, in the same region, has more people.
  6. Campobasso Capital of Molise, the second smallest region of Italy.

Islands 2

  1. Palermo Capital of Sicily and the largest city on the island.
  2. Cagliari Capital of Sardinia and the largest city on the island.

How this list was compiled: The 20 regional capitals were read on 2026-10-01 in the table at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regions_of_Italy and in the GeoNames gazetteer (the place coded as seat of each region, and Rome as the national capital), https://download.geonames.org/export/dump/IT.zip; the regions table at https://www.citypopulation.de/en/italy/cities/ agrees on all 20. Which capitals are the largest city of their region and which are not (Pescara above L'Aquila, Reggio Calabria above Catanzaro, Verona above Venice): the resident population of 1 January 2026 from the Italian statistics office, ISTAT, as printed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Italy and at citypopulation.de, where the census of 2021 gives the same order; read on 2026-10-01. Potenza and Matera are close and are not ranked. The Aosta Valley as the smallest region and Molise as the second smallest, by area: the Wikipedia table and the citypopulation.de table. The Italian names of seven capitals and of Apulia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:IT and the Wikipedia table. The map, the region points and the five groups are copied from this site (Natural Earth); positions named in the hints were read off the drawing. Licence: own work

The drawing: Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Surrounding land from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_admin_0_countries (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_admin_0_countries.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection centred on 42°N 12.5°E. Outlines simplified; small islands are left out. Licence: public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)

How it works

Each question of this Italian regions and capitals quiz names a region and asks for its capital, such as Bologna or Cagliari. Italy has 20 regions, one capital each. A round asks 12 at most, the north and the center first.

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Three capitals that are not the biggest city

L'Aquila is smaller than Pescara, Catanzaro is smaller than Reggio Calabria, and Venice has fewer people than Verona. Rome is the capital of Lazio as well as of Italy. The list under the map sets each capital beside its region.

Five groups, two directions

Under Start from the groups are North-west (4 capitals), North-east (4), Center (4), South (6) and Islands (2), and the map zooms to the one you pick. The other direction, Find it, names a capital for you to tap its region. Type Firenze or Florence, Torino or Turin: the Italian name is marked right as well.

  • Seven capitals have an English name that differs from the Italian one: Rome, Milan, Naples, Turin, Genoa, Florence and Venice.
  • The two island regions are quick: Palermo for Sicily and Cagliari for Sardinia.
  • The South has the most to learn, six capitals: Naples, Bari, L'Aquila, Potenza, Catanzaro and Campobasso.

Questions and answers

What are the 20 regions of Italy and their capitals?

Abruzzo (L'Aquila), Aosta Valley (Aosta), Apulia (Bari), Basilicata (Potenza), Calabria (Catanzaro), Campania (Naples), Emilia-Romagna (Bologna), Friuli-Venezia Giulia (Trieste), Lazio (Rome), Liguria (Genoa), Lombardy (Milan), Marche (Ancona), Molise (Campobasso), Piedmont (Turin), Sardinia (Cagliari), Sicily (Palermo), Trentino-South Tyrol (Trento), Tuscany (Florence), Umbria (Perugia) and Veneto (Venice).

What is the capital of Calabria?

Catanzaro. Reggio Calabria is the largest city of the region, with about twice as many people as Catanzaro.

Is Venice the largest city in Veneto?

No. Venice is the capital of Veneto, but Verona, in the same region, has more people.

Which regional capital is also the capital of Italy?

Rome. It is the capital of the region of Lazio and of Italy, and the largest city in the country.

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