Biella

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Biella

Total population

45,740

WeatherAvg high 62.1°F

Coordinates45.57°, 8.05°

Demographic figures from ISTAT. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Biella is a city and comune (municipality) in the region of Piedmont in northern Italy, the capital of the province of the same name. With a population of 43,356, it is the 12th-largest city in Piedmont. It is located about 80 kilometres northeast of Turin and at about the same distance west-northwest of Milan.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Climate

10-year averages from ERA5 reanalysis (Open-Meteo).

Notable people from here

Elisabetta Perrone

Italian racewalker

Giuseppe Pella

Italian politician (1902-1981)

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Antonio Maurizio Zumaglini

Italian botanist (1804-1865)

Ernesto Gastaldi

Italian screenwriter

Ernesto Schiaparelli

Italian egyptologist (1856-1928)

Giancarlo Astrua

Italian road bicycle racer (1927–2010)

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Benvenuto Sella

French rugby union player (1914–1994)

Giovanni Buscaglione

Italian-Colombian architect (1874-1941)

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Silvino Maffiotti

Italian association football player (1889-1961)

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Séraphin Enrico

French sculptor (1898-1989)

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Camillo Marinone

Italian basketball player

Carlo Bernardo Mosca

Italian engineer, architect and politician (1792–1867)

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Giovanna Astrua

Italian singer

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Giovanni Battista Schiapparelli

Italian chemist and pharmacist (1795-1863)

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Giuseppe Angelico

Italian entrepreneur (1930-2009)

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Guido Maffiotti

Italian composer, harpsichordist and organist (1895-1969)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Piedmont

• Occhieppo Inferiore
  1.8 mi away · pop. 4,005
• Andorno Micca
  3 mi away · pop. 3,549
• Muzzano
  3.2 mi away · pop. 673
• Ternengo
  3.4 mi away · pop. 307
• Tavigliano
  3.9 mi away · pop. 936
• Pettinengo
  4 mi away · pop. 1,555
• Sagliano Micca
  4.1 mi away · pop. 1,676
• Piatto
  4.2 mi away · pop. 552
• Borriana
  4.2 mi away · pop. 850
• Verrone
  5.3 mi away · pop. 1,134
• Cossato
  6.1 mi away · pop. 15,266
• Sala Biellese
  6.1 mi away · pop. 601

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Biella

Search results from Open Library.

Official Identifiers