Peru
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Codes and identifiers
- ISO alpha-2
- PE
- ISO alpha-3
- PER
- ISO numeric
- 604
- FIPS 10-4
- PE
- GeoNames ID
- 3932488
Key facts
- Capital
- Lima
- Area
- 1,285,220 km²
- Population
- 31,989,256
- Currency
- Sol (PEN)
- Calling code
- +51
- Top-level domain
- .pe
- Official languages
- es-PE,qu,ay
Continent
- Name
- South America
- Code
- SA
- In this dataset
- 14 countries
Location
- Latitude
- -10
- Longitude
- -75.25
- Min latitude
- -18.337746206368088
- Min longitude
- -81.33755752899992
- Max latitude
- -0.02909271199992247
- Max longitude
- -68.68425248299991
Boundary
The API call behind this page
Request
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
"https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/PE?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"Response
{
"data": {
"area_sq_km": 1285220,
"capital": "Lima",
"continent_code": "SA",
"currency_code": "PEN",
"iso3_code": "PER",
"iso_code": "PE",
"name": "Peru",
"population": 31989256
}
}Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.
Other endpoints for this country
/v1/countries/PE/regions/v1/cities?country=PE/v1/postal-codes?country=PE/v1/timezones?country=PE
Name in other languages
- Arabic
- بيرو
- Chinese
- 秘鲁
- English
- Peru
- French
- Pérou
- German
- Peru
- Hindi
- पेरू
- Italian
- Perù
- Japanese
- ペルー
- Korean
- 페루
- Portuguese
- Peru
- Russian
- Перу
- Spanish
- Perú
- Total language variants
- 147
The API returns any of them with ?lang=.
Time zones
| IANA ID | UTC offset | DST offset |
|---|---|---|
| America/Lima | UTC-05:00 | UTC-05:00 |
Postal code format
- Format
- #####
- Pattern
^(\d{5})$
First-level administrative regions
- Departamento de Lima
- Provincia de Lima
- Departamento de Piura
- Departamento de La Libertad
- Departamento de Puno
- Departamento de Cajamarca
- Provincia Constitucional del Callao
- Departamento de Junín
- Departamento de Arequipa
- Departamento de Cusco
- Departamento de Lambayeque
- Departamento de Ancash
- Departamento de Loreto
- Departamento de Ica
- Departamento de San Martín
- Departamento de Huánuco
- Departamento de Ayacucho
- Departamento de Huancavelica
- Departamento de Amazonas
- Departamento de Ucayali
- Departamento de Apurímac
- Departamento de Pasco
- Departamento de Tacna
- Departamento de Tumbes
24 of 26 shown, largest first
Largest cities
| City | Population |
|---|---|
| Lima | 7,737,002 |
| Callao | 1,226,200 |
| Arequipa | 1,195,700 |
| Trujillo | 1,067,700 |
| Piura | 630,000 |
| Chiclayo | 609,400 |
| Huancayo | 456,250 |
| Cusco | 428,450 |
| Iquitos | 377,609 |
| Pucallpa | 326,040 |
Coverage in this dataset
- Cities
- 47,492
- First-level regions
- 26
- Postal codes
- 96,943
- Name languages
- 147
- Boundary polygon
- Yes
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