Contains part of the Amazon, the Andes and the driest desert on Earth, plus Machu Picchu.
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Peru
Republic of Peru ยท Piruw
South America
ยท South America
0Population
1.29Mkmยฒ of land
$6.98KGDP / person
LimaCapital
- ISO codes
- PE ยท PER
- Density
- 25 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Aymara, Quechua, Spanish
- Currency
- Peruvian sol (PEN)
- Dial code
- +51
- Internet domain
- .pe
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 12.9770ยฐ S, 72.9000ยฐ W
- Demonym
- Peruvian
- UN region
- Americas ยท South America
- Economy
- Emerging region: G20
- Income group
- Upper middle income
- Total GDP
- $226.85B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 5
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By the numbers
How Peru stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
43rd
of 242 ยท 0.42% of world population
Land area
21st
of 242 ยท 0.86% of world land
GDP per person
124th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
181st
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Peru
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 32,510,453 people, the 43rd largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.42 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 1,285,216 kmยฒ, making it the 21st largest country here - about 5.3 times the size of the United Kingdom.
Population density is about 25 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Lima, at 12.05ยฐ S, 77.05ยฐ W, with a metropolitan population of about 8,012,000.
Shares land borders with 5 countries: Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Ecuador.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, America/Lima.
The currency is the Peruvian sol (PEN, symbol S/.).
Has 3 official languages: Aymara, Quechua and Spanish.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
America/Lima
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UTCโ05:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Lima
Lima
12.0461ยฐ S, 77.0520ยฐ W
8.01M
2
Arequipa
Arequipa
16.4180ยฐ S, 71.5320ยฐ W
815K
3
Trujillo
La Libertad
8.1200ยฐ S, 79.0200ยฐ W
765.17K
4
Iquitos
Loreto
3.7500ยฐ S, 73.2500ยฐ W
458.73K
5
Huancayo
Junรญn
12.0800ยฐ S, 75.2000ยฐ W
412.73K
6
Piura
Piura
5.2100ยฐ S, 80.6300ยฐ W
396.93K
7
Cusco
Cusco
13.5250ยฐ S, 71.9722ยฐ W
361.18K
8
Chimbote
Ancash
9.0700ยฐ S, 78.5700ยฐ W
349.85K
9
Pucallpa
Ucayali
8.3689ยฐ S, 74.5350ยฐ W
310.75K
10
Tacna
Tacna
18.0000ยฐ S, 70.2500ยฐ W
280.1K
๐ Peaks
Huascarรกn
6,768 m
๐งญ Worth the trip
Machu Picchu
Ancient
An Inca royal estate on a knife-edge ridge, built without mortar and abandoned barely a century after it was finished.
Inca Trail
Adventure
Forty-three kilometres of original Inca paving over a 4,215 m pass, ending at the Sun Gate above Machu Picchu.
Land neighbours
5 countries share a border with Peru.