Northeast Italy

For the EU constituency, see North-West Italy (European Parliament constituency).

Northeast Italy

Regional statistics
Composition	Emilia-Romagna Friuli-Venezia Giulia Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol Veneto
Area  - Total	62,310 km2 (24,058 sq mi)
Population  - Total  - Density	11,638,363[1] (2010 est.) 186.8/km² (483.7/sq mi)
Largest city	Bologna (pop. 380,604)
GDP	€357.4 billion (2008)[2]

Northeast Italy (Italian: Italia nord-orientale or just Nordest) is one of the five official statistical regions of Italy used by the National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT), a first level NUTS region and a European Parliament constituency. Northeast encompasses four of the country's 20 regions:

• Emilia-Romagna
• Friuli-Venezia Giulia
• Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol
• Veneto

Culture

Italian is the main language of the area but it is often used only with strangers or in the main cities or for cultural reasons, because the most part of the inhabitants speaks their own national language; so we have Venetian language widely spoken in Veneto and on the coast to Trieste and Istria, as well as in the towns of Pordenone and Gorizia in Friuli, and in most part of Trentino, but recognised just by region Veneto; Friulano in the most part of Friuli, it is officially recognised by the Italian state; as for German, the first language of South Tyrol, where Italian is spoken just by less than a third of the inhabitants; as Ladin, spoken by a few thousands people in the Dolomites; then Slovene, spoken (and recognised by Italy) on the border of Italy and in Istria; where main language is Croat, but Italian is recognised as a minority language.

The terms Tre Venezie or Triveneto (literally "Triple Veneto"), refers to the three regions of Veneto (before 1947 Venezia Euganea, united to Friuli) Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol (once Venezia Tridentina) and Friuli-Venezia Giulia.

Venetia, a region which indicated the old land provinces of Venice Republic from river Adda to river Isonzo, and that is sometime used still today to indicate this territory together with Trentino and Trieste.

Venetia et Histria, an old region of Italy at the time of 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 Udine province; Ladins in the Dolomites are 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); while after 1947 Venetian/Italian people are just a minority in Slovene and Croatian Istria.

See also

• National Institute of Statistics (Italy)

• Italian NUTS level 1 regions:
  • Northwest Italy
  • Central Italy
  • South Italy
  • Insular Italy

• Northern Italy
• Southern Italy

References

1. ^ http://demo.istat.it/index_e.html
2. ^ http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/tgm/table.do?tab=table&init=1&language=en&pcode=tgs00003&plugin=1

External links

• Regione Veneto — Official homepage
• Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia — Official homepage
• Regione Trentino-Alto Adige — Official homepage
• After Venice - Northeast Italy tourism portal
• Timetotravel.it - Tourism in Triveneto (italian north-east)