Paita
Paita is a city in northwestern Peru. It is the capital of the Paita Province which is in the Piura Region. It is a leading seaport in the region. Paita is located 1,089 km northwest of the country's capital Lima, and 57 km northwest of the regional capital of Piura.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: City with 81,200 residents
- Description: city in Piura, Peru
- Also known as: “Payta”
Paita
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Paita District, Paita Province, Piura, Peru, South America
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Latitude
-5.0852° or 5° 5′ 7″ southLongitude
-81.1137° or 81° 6′ 49″ westPopulation
81,200Elevation
16 metres (52 feet)United Nations Location Code
PE PAIOpen location code
666WWV7P+WGOpenStreetMap ID
node 6486650875OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Paita” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بايتا”
- Asturian: “Paita”
- Aymara: “Paita”
- Catalan: “Paita”
- Cebuano: “Paita (kapital sa distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Paita”
- Chinese: “派塔”
- Dutch: “Paita”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بايتا”
- Finnish: “Paita”
- French: “Paita”
- German: “Paita”
- Hebrew: “פאיטה”
- Hungarian: “Paita”
- Irish: “Paita”
- Italian: “Paita”
- Japanese: “パイタ”
- Lithuanian: “Paita”
- Maltese: “Paita”
- Moksha: “Пайта”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Paita”
- Persian: “پایتا”
- Polish: “Paita”
- Portuguese: “Paita”
- Quechua: “Paita”
- Quechua: “Payta”
- Russian: “Паита”
- Russian: “Пайта”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Paita”
- Slovenian: “Paita”
- Spanish: “Paita”
- Ukrainian: “Пайта”
- Venetian: “Paita”
- Waray (Philippines): “Paita”
- “Paita”
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