| Rank | Name | Region | Pop. | Rank | Name | Region | Pop. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Rome  Milan |
1 | Rome | Lazio | 2,748,109 | 11 | Verona | Veneto | 255,588 |  Naples  Turin |
| 2 | Milan | Lombardy | 1,354,196 | 12 | Venice | Veneto | 250,369 | ||
| 3 | Naples | Campania | 913,462 | 13 | Messina | Sicily | 218,786 | ||
| 4 | Turin | Piedmont | 841,600 | 14 | Padua | Veneto | 206,496 | ||
| 5 | Palermo | Sicily | 630,167 | 15 | Trieste | Friuli-Venezia Giulia | 198,417 | ||
| 6 | Genoa | Liguria | 558,745 | 16 | Parma | Emilia-Romagna | 196,885 | ||
| 7 | Bologna | Emilia-Romagna | 387,971 | 17 | Brescia | Lombardy | 196,567 | ||
| 8 | Florence | Tuscany | 360,930 | 18 | Prato | Tuscany | 195,820 | ||
| 9 | Bari | Apulia | 316,015 | 19 | Taranto | Apulia | 188,098 | ||
| 10 | Catania | Sicily | 298,762 | 20 | Modena | Emilia-Romagna | 184,153 | ||
