What Italian region includes Leonardo da Vinci's birthplace?

The Italian region that includes Leonardo da Vinci’s birthplace is Tuscany. Leonardo was born in 1452 in or near Vinci, a hill town in the territory of the historic Republic of Florence, in central Italy.

Vinci is now a comune in the Metropolitan City of Florence, within Tuscany. The traditional birthplace is a farmhouse near the hamlet of Anchiano, a short distance from the town itself. This explains why Leonardo’s name became “Leonardo da Vinci”: it identified him as Leonardo from Vinci rather than naming a hereditary family line.

Tuscany was one of the major centres of the Italian Renaissance. Florence, its regional capital, supported artists, engineers, architects, and scholars, and Leonardo later trained and worked there in Andrea del Verrocchio’s workshop. A common mistake is to answer Florence, because Leonardo’s early career is strongly associated with that city; Florence is the city and metropolitan area, while Tuscany is the broader Italian region containing his birthplace.