South America
Peru

Lambayeque

Lambayeque is a department of Peru. Located in the country's northwest, it is known for its rich Moche and Chimú historical past. It is the second-smallest department in Peru after , but it is also its most densely populated department and its eighth most populous department.
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  • Type: State with 1,110,000 residents
  • Description: department of Peru
  • Also known as: “Departamento Lambayeque”, “Department of Lambayeque”, “Lambayeque Department”, “Lambayeque region”, and “Region of Lambayeque”

Lambayeque

Latitude
-6.3333° or 6° 20′ south
Longitude
-80° or 80° west
Population
1,110,000
Elevation
37 metres (121 feet)
Open location code
6752M282+M2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1230775023
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
3695753
Wiki­data ID
Q210061
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Lambayeque” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إقليم لمبايكه”
  • Arabic: “إقليم لمباييكه”
  • Aragonese: “Departamento de Lambayeque”
  • Asturian: “departamentu de Lambayeque”
  • Aymara: “Lambayeque Jach’a Suyu”
  • Aymara: “Lampalliqi jach’a suyu”
  • Aymara: “Lampalliqi jacha suyu”
  • Belarusian: “Ламбаеке”
  • Belarusian: “Ламбаекэ”
  • Belarusian: “Лямбаекэ”
  • Belarusian: “Рэгіён Ламбаеке”
  • Bengali: “লাম্বায়েক অঞ্চল”
  • Bulgarian: “Ламбайеке”
  • Catalan: “Departament de Lambayeque”
  • Catalan: “Departamento de Lambayeque”
  • Catalan: “Lambayeque”
  • Catalan: “Regió de Lambayeque”
  • Cebuano: “Lambayeque”
  • Chinese: “Lambayeque Khu”
  • Chinese: “兰巴耶克”
  • Chinese: “兰巴耶克大区”
  • Chinese: “蘭巴耶克大區”
  • Czech: “Lambajeke”
  • Czech: “Lambayeque”
  • Danish: “Lambayeque”
  • Dutch: “Lambayeque”
  • Esperanto: “Departamento Lambajeko”
  • Esperanto: “Departemento de Lambayeque”
  • Esperanto: “Departemento Lambajekio”
  • Esperanto: “Departemento Lambajeko”
  • Esperanto: “Departemento Lambayeque”
  • Esperanto: “Lambayeque”
  • Esperanto: “Regiono Lambayeque”
  • Finnish: “Lambayequen alue”
  • French: “Lambayeque”
  • French: “Region de Lambayeque”
  • Galician: “Lambayeque”
  • Georgian: “ლამბაიეკე”
  • Georgian: “ლამბაიეკეს რეგიონი”
  • German: “Lambayeque”
  • German: “PE-LAM”
  • German: “Region Lambayeque”
  • Greek: “Λαμπαγιέκ”
  • Gujarati: “લાંબાયેક પ્રદેશ”
  • Hindi: “लैम्बेक प्रदेश”
  • Hungarian: “Lambayeque megye”
  • Indonesian: “Lambayeque region”
  • Indonesian: “Lambayeque”
  • Indonesian: “Region Lambayeque”
  • Indonesian: “Región Lambayeque”
  • Italian: “Lambayeque”
  • Italian: “regione di Lambayeque”
  • Italian: “Regione di Lambayeque”
  • Japanese: “ランバイエケ県”
  • Kannada: “ಲ್ಯಾಂಬಯೆಕ್ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
  • Korean: “람바예케주”
  • Ladino: “Lambayeque”
  • Latin: “Lambaieque Regio”
  • Latin: “Regio Lambayequensis”
  • Latvian: “Lambajekes departaments”
  • Lithuanian: “Lambajekės departamentas”
  • Macedonian: “Ламбајеке”
  • Malay: “Negeri Lambayeque”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Lambayeque”
  • Marathi: “लांबीयुक प्रदेश”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lambayeque Khu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lambayeque”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lambayeque-regionen”
  • Norwegian: “Lambayeque”
  • Persian: “منطقه لامبایکه”
  • Polish: “Region Lambayeque”
  • Portuguese: “Departamento de Lambayeque”
  • Portuguese: “Lambayeque”
  • Portuguese: “Região de Lambayeque”
  • Quechua: “Lampalliqi suyu”
  • Quechua: “Lampalliqi Suyu”
  • Russian: “Ламбаеке”
  • Russian: “Ламбайеке”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lambayeque (departman)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lambayeque”
  • Sinhala: “ලැම්බයෙක් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, පේරු”
  • Sinhala: “ලැම්බේ එක්වේ කලාපය”
  • Slovenian: “Lambayeque”
  • Spanish: “Departamento de Lambayeque”
  • Spanish: “Lambayeque”
  • Spanish: “Región de Lambayeque”
  • Spanish: “Región Lambayeque”
  • Swedish: “Lambayeque”
  • Tamil: “லம்பாஏகியு ரீஜியன்”
  • Telugu: “లాంబేఖ్ ప్రాంతం”
  • Thai: “แคว้นลัมบาเยเก”
  • Turkish: “Lambayaque Bölgesi”
  • Turkish: “Lambayeque bölgesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Ламбаєке”
  • Urdu: “لامبایےکے ریجن”
  • Urdu: “لامبایےکے علاقہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Khu vực Lambayeque”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lambayeque”
  • Western Armenian: “Լամպայէք տարածաշրջան”
  • Western Panjabi: “لالامبیاکوی”
  • Wu Chinese: “兰巴耶克大区”
  • “Tlālxeliuhcāyōtl Lambayeque”

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