Italian Municipalities API

Use this API when you need a practical municipality lookup layer for Italy-focused travel, civic, logistics, or research products. It exposes normalized JSON endpoints with practical filters, source metadata, and lightweight reference tables so developers can add lookup and discovery features without maintaining their own scraper or curation pipeline.

Data live italymunicipalitiescomunigeographypopulationwikipedia

Use Cases

  • power Italy location selectors
  • normalize municipality/province data
  • filter places by population and administrative region

Access

These endpoints are served through RapidAPI. The examples below are documentation examples, not direct browser links, because requests require RapidAPI authentication headers.

Open the RapidAPI listing to subscribe, test requests, and get your API key.

Endpoints

GET/api/italianmunicipalities/municipalities

List municipalities or filter by region, province, name, population, area, density, or free text.

Query parameters: region, province, name, q, min_population, max_population, min_area, max_area, min_density, max_density, limit

/api/italianmunicipalities/municipalities?name=example&q=example
GET/api/italianmunicipalities/regions

List Italian regions represented in the dataset.

/api/italianmunicipalities/regions
GET/api/italianmunicipalities/provinces

List provinces and metropolitan cities represented in the dataset.

Query parameters: region

/api/italianmunicipalities/provinces
GET/api/italianmunicipalities/sources

List Wikipedia source pages used for collection.

/api/italianmunicipalities/sources

Pricing

  • Basic: $0/day for 10 requests. Evaluation tier for testing the API in prototypes.
  • Pro: $9/month for 10000 requests. Small production apps, internal tools, and niche content sites.
  • Business: $29/month for 100000 requests. Higher-volume apps, catalog enrichment, and recurring data workflows.

Data Notes

Source: Wikipedia. Refresh cadence: 7d. Records include source attribution when exposed by the API response.

Primary table: municipalities