Milan (ita)

Milan

Milan ranks 22nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Seoul, Copenhagen, and Barcelona. Memorable people born in Milan include Caravaggio, Silvio Berlusconi, and Pope Pius XI. Memorable people who died in Milan include Karl-Heinz Schnellinger, Franco Corelli, and Ada Negri. Milan has been the birth place of many politicians, and soccer players and the death place of many soccer players, and writers. Milan is located in Italy.

Milan is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, the largest city in Italy by urban area and the second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of nearly 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city has 3.2 million residents. Within Europe, Milan is the fourth-most-populous urban area of the EU with 6.17 million inhabitants. According to national sources, the population within the wider Milan metropolitan area is estimated between 7.5 million and 8.2 million, making it by far the largest metropolitan area in Italy and one of the largest in the EU. Milan is the economic capital of Italy, one of the economic capitals of Europe and a global centre for business, fashion and finance. Read more on Wikipedia