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Random city in Italy

Tap to land on an Italian town or city, see its region and roughly how many people live there. Stay inside Tuscany, Sicily or any other region, limit it to the big cities, and draw up to ten in a row.

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    A drawn place stays out until you press Start over. Switched off, any place can come up again, but never twice in the same draw.

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    City data: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), names in each language from Wikidata. Populations are GeoNames figures and can be a few years old.

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    908 comuni, from Rome to Priverno

    All 908 Italian places that GeoNames lists with 10,000 people or more are here, across the 20 regions. Rome and Milan pass a million, and 43 places have 100,000 or more. 490 stay below 20,000: hill towns, coastal resorts and market towns such as Gambettola, Villa Literno or Priverno, which is the smallest on the list.

    The north and the south both bring plenty. Lombardy has 162 places, Campania 112, Apulia 100 and Sicily 91. Tuscany, the one most people ask for, has 52, five of them big: Florence, Prato, Livorno, Arezzo and Pisa. Small regions have few entries: the Aosta Valley only Aosta, Molise three and Basilicata eight, including Matera. Choose one under Region to tour it town by town.

    On this English page the big cities carry their English names, such as Florence, Naples and Turin; the Italian edition shows Firenze, Napoli and Torino.

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    Drawing a random Italian town

    1. Tap Draw a city to see the place, its region and its approximate size.
    2. Open Filters for one region or one size. Next to the button you see how many towns are still left.
    3. For an Italian lesson or a holiday shortlist, set How many and draw up to ten at once. They wait in History for you to copy.

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    Questions about random Italian cities

    Can I get only towns in Tuscany?

    Yes. Choose Tuscany under Region and only its 52 places stay in the draw. The same works for Sicily, Sardinia, Liguria or any of the 20 regions.

    Why is Venice so small here?

    GeoNames counts the historic centre of Venice, around 51,000 people, while Mestre on the mainland is a separate entry. Together they come close to 200,000.

    Are villages included?

    No. Italy has thousands of villages and small comuni under 10,000, and they are not on the list. The lower limit keeps the results to places you can find on a map.

    Can I draw from all of Europe instead?

    Yes: switch Cities from to Europe to get any of 716 big European cities. This page just opens on the Italian list.

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