South America
Peru

Amazonas

Amazonas is a department and region in northern bordered by on the north and west, on the west, on the south, and and on the east.
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  • Type: department of Peru with 443,000 residents
  • Description: department of Peru
  • Also known as: “Amazonas department”, “Amazonas Department”, “Amazonas region”, “Amazonas Region”, “Amazonas, Peru”, and “Departamento Amazonas”
  • Neighbors:

Amazonas

Latitude
-5° or 5° south
Longitude
-78.2333° or 78° 14′ west
Population
443,000
Elevation
561 metres (1,841 feet)
Open location code
67732Q28+2M
Geo­Names ID
3699699
Wiki­data ID
Q201162
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Amazonas” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إقليم أمازوناس”
  • Armenian: “Ամազոնաս”
  • Aymara: “Amarujawira jach’a suyu”
  • Aymara: “Amasunu Jach’a Suyu”
  • Belarusian: “Амасонас”
  • Belarusian: “Рэгіён Амасонас”
  • Bengali: “আমাজুনাস অঞ্চল”
  • Bulgarian: “Амазонас”
  • Bulgarian: “Амасонас”
  • Catalan: “Departamento de Amazonas”
  • Catalan: “Regió d’Amazonas”
  • Catalan: “Regió d’Amazones”
  • Catalan: “Regió de l’Amazones”
  • Cebuano: “Amazonas”
  • Chinese: “Amazonas Khu”
  • Chinese: “亚马孙大区”
  • Chinese: “亞馬遜大區”
  • Czech: “Amazonas”
  • Danish: “Amazonas”
  • Dutch: “Amazonas”
  • Dutch: “Departamento de Amazonas”
  • Esperanto: “Departemento Amazonio”
  • Estonian: “Amazonase piirkond”
  • Finnish: “Amazonasin alue”
  • French: “Amazonas”
  • French: “Département d’Amazonas”
  • French: “Region d’Amazonas”
  • French: “Région d’Amazonas”
  • Galician: “Amazonas, Perú”
  • Galician: “Amazonas”
  • Galician: “Departamento de Amazonas”
  • Georgian: “ამასონასი”
  • Georgian: “ამასონასის რეგიონი”
  • German: “Amazonas”
  • German: “PE-AMA”
  • German: “Region Amazonas”
  • Greek: “Περιφέρεια Αμασόνας”
  • Guarani: “Amasóna”
  • Guarani: “Perũ tetãvore”
  • Guarani: “Tetãvore Amasóna”
  • Guarani: “Tetãvore Perũ-pe”
  • Gujarati: “એમેઝોનસ પ્રદેશ”
  • Hindi: “आमेज़ोनास क्षेत्र”
  • Hungarian: “Amazonas megye”
  • Indonesian: “Amazonas region”
  • Indonesian: “Region Amazonas”
  • Italian: “Amazonas”
  • Italian: “regione di Amazonas”
  • Italian: “Regione di Amazonas”
  • Japanese: “アマソナス県”
  • Kannada: “ಅಮೆಜೋನಾಸ್ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
  • Korean: “아마소나스주”
  • Ladino: “Amazonas”
  • Latin: “Amazones”
  • Latin: “Regio Amazonum”
  • Latvian: “Amazonasas departaments”
  • Lithuanian: “Amazonės departamentas”
  • Lithuanian: “Amazonės regionas”
  • Macedonian: “Амазон”
  • Malay: “Negeri Amazonas”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Amazonas”
  • Marathi: “अमॅझॉनस प्रदेश”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Amazonas Khu”
  • Moksha: “Амасонас”
  • Northern Frisian: “Amazonas (Department uun Peruu)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Amazonas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Amazonas-regionen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Amazonas”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Amazonas i Peru”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Amazonas-regionen”
  • Norwegian: “Amazonas”
  • Ossetian: “Амасонас (Перуйы департамент)”
  • Ossetian: “Амасонас”
  • Persian: “منطقه آمازوناس”
  • Persian: “ناحیه امازوناس”
  • Polish: “Amazonas”
  • Polish: “Region Amazonas”
  • Portuguese: “Amazonas”
  • Quechua: “Amarumayu suyu”
  • Quechua: “Amarumayu Suyu”
  • Quechua: “Amazonas suyu”
  • Quechua: “Awqaq sipas suyu”
  • Romanian: “Amazonas”
  • Russian: “Амазонас”
  • Russian: “Амасонас”
  • Scots: “Amazonas Region”
  • Serbian: “Region Amazonas”
  • Serbian: “Амазонас регион”
  • Serbian: “Амазонас”
  • Serbian: “Регион Амазонас”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Amazonas (departman, Peru)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Amazonas”
  • Sinhala: “ඇමසෝනාස් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, පේරු”
  • Sinhala: “ඇමසෝනාස් ප්‍රාන්තය”
  • Slovenian: “Amazonas”
  • Slovenian: “departma Amazonas”
  • Slovenian: “regija Amazonas”
  • Spanish: “Departamento de Amazonas en el Perú”
  • Spanish: “Departamento de Amazonas”
  • Spanish: “Departamento del Amazonas”
  • Spanish: “Región Amazonas”
  • Spanish: “Región de Amazonas”
  • Swedish: “Amazonas, Peru”
  • Swedish: “Amazonas”
  • Tamil: “அமேசானாஸ் பகுதி”
  • Telugu: “అమెజోనాస్ ప్రాంతం”
  • Thai: “แคว้นอามาโซนัส”
  • Turkish: “Amazonas bölgesi”
  • Turkish: “Amazonas Bölgesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Амазонас”
  • Ukrainian: “Амасонас”
  • Urdu: “امازوناس ریجن”
  • Urdu: “امازوناس علاقہ”
  • Venetian: “Amazonas”
  • Vietnamese: “Khu vực Amazonas”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Amazonas”
  • Western Armenian: “Ամազոնաս”
  • Western Panjabi: “امیزوناس”
  • Wu Chinese: “亚马孙大区”
  • “Amazonas”

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