South America
Peru

Lima region

Lima is a department of Peru. Located in the country's central coast, it is administered by a regional government based in , whose jurisdiction does not include the quasi-autonomous special regime of the , coterminous with the country's capital, .
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  • Type: State with 8,450,000 residents
  • Description: department of Peru
  • Also known as: “Departamento Lima”, “Department of Lima”, “Lima Department”, “Lima Region”, “Región Lima”, and “Region of Lima”

Lima region

Latitude
-12.2001° or 12° 12′ 0″ south
Longitude
-76.2851° or 76° 17′ 6″ west
Population
8,450,000
Elevation
3,692 metres (12,113 feet)
Open location code
57V5QPX7+XX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1230775171
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
3936452
Wiki­data ID
Q211795
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Lima region” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “منطقة ليما”
  • Armenian: “Լիմա”
  • Aymara: “Lima jach’a suyu”
  • Aymara: “Lima Jach’a Suyu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Lima regionu”
  • Basque: “Lima”
  • Belarusian: “Ліма”
  • Belarusian: “Рэгіён Ліма”
  • Bengali: “লিমা অঞ্চল”
  • Bulgarian: “Лима”
  • Catalan: “Departament de Lima”
  • Catalan: “Departamento de Lima”
  • Catalan: “Regió de Lima”
  • Cebuano: “Lima (rehiyon)”
  • Cebuano: “Lima”
  • Chinese: “Lima Khu”
  • Chinese: “利馬大區”
  • Chinese: “利马大区”
  • Czech: “Lima”
  • Danish: “Lima Provincias”
  • Danish: “Lima”
  • Dutch: “Lima”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “منطقه ليما”
  • Esperanto: “Departemento Lima”
  • Esperanto: “Lima Regiono”
  • Finnish: “Liman alue”
  • French: “Lima”
  • French: “Region de Lima”
  • French: “Région de Lima”
  • Georgian: “ლიმა”
  • Georgian: “ლიმის რეგიონი”
  • German: “Lima Provincias”
  • German: “Lima”
  • German: “Region Lima”
  • Greek: “Λίμα”
  • Gujarati: “લિમા પ્રદેશ”
  • Hebrew: “מחלקת לימה”
  • Hindi: “लीमा क्षेत्र”
  • Hungarian: “Lima megye”
  • Indonesian: “Lima Provincias region”
  • Indonesian: “Region Lima”
  • Irish: “Líoma”
  • Italian: “Lima”
  • Italian: “regione di Lima”
  • Italian: “Regione di Lima”
  • Japanese: “リマ県”
  • Kannada: “ಲಿಮಾ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
  • Korean: “리마주”
  • Ladino: “Lima”
  • Latin: “Lima Regio”
  • Latin: “Regio Limensis”
  • Latvian: “Limas departaments”
  • Lithuanian: “Limos departamentas”
  • Lithuanian: “Limos regionas”
  • Macedonian: “Лима”
  • Malay: “Negeri Lima”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Lima”
  • Maltese: “Dipartiment ta‘ Lima”
  • Marathi: “लिमा प्रदेश”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lima Khu”
  • Northern Frisian: “Liima (Department)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Liima”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lima-regionen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lima”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lima-regionen”
  • Norwegian: “Lima”
  • Persian: “منطقه لیما”
  • Polish: “Region Lima”
  • Portuguese: “Departamento de lima”
  • Portuguese: “Lima”
  • Quechua: “Lima suyu”
  • Quechua: “Lima Suyu”
  • Romanian: “Departamentul Lima”
  • Russian: “Лима”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Departman Lima”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Provincija Lima”
  • Sinhala: “ලිමා දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, පේරු”
  • Sinhala: “ලිමා පළාත”
  • Slovenian: “Departma Lima”
  • Slovenian: “Lima”
  • Slovenian: “Regija Lima”
  • Spanish: “Departamento de Lima”
  • Spanish: “Lima Región”
  • Spanish: “Lima”
  • Spanish: “Región de Lima”
  • Spanish: “Región Lima”
  • Swedish: “Lima”
  • Tamil: “லீமா பகுதி”
  • Telugu: “లిమా ప్రాంతం”
  • Thai: “แคว้นลิมา”
  • Turkish: “Lima bölgesi”
  • Turkish: “Lima Bölgesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Ліма”
  • Urdu: “لیما ریجن”
  • Urdu: “لیما علاقہ”
  • Venetian: “Departemento de Łima”
  • Venetian: “Rejon de Łima”
  • Vietnamese: “Khu vực Lima”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lima”
  • Western Armenian: “Լիմա”
  • Wu Chinese: “利马大区”
  • “Lima”

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