South America
Peru

Arequipa

Arequipa is a department and region in southwestern . It is the sixth largest department in Peru, after , Cuzco, , , and , its sixth most populous department, and its eleventh least densely populated department.
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  • Type: State with 1,150,000 residents
  • Description: department of Peru
  • Also known as: “Arequipa Department”, “Arequipa Region”, “Departamento Arequipa”, and “Department of Arequipa”

Arequipa

Latitude
-16° or 16° south
Longitude
-72.25° or 72° 15′ west
Population
1,150,000
Elevation
3,351 metres (10,994 feet)
Open location code
57P92Q22+22
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1230775043
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
3947319
Wiki­data ID
Q205068
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Arequipa” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إقليم أريكيبا”
  • Armenian: “Արեկիպա”
  • Asturian: “Departamentu d’Arequipa”
  • Aymara: “Arikipa Jach’a Suyu”
  • Aymara: “Ariqipa jach’a suyu”
  • Aymara: “Ariqipa jacha suyu”
  • Basque: “Arequipa departamendua”
  • Belarusian: “Арэкіпа”
  • Belarusian: “Рэгіён Арэкіпа”
  • Bengali: “আরেকুপা অঞ্চল”
  • Bulgarian: “Арекипа”
  • Catalan: “Departament d’Arequipa”
  • Catalan: “Departament de Arequipa”
  • Catalan: “Departamento de Arequipa”
  • Catalan: “Regió d’Arequipa”
  • Cebuano: “Arequipa”
  • Chinese: “Arequipa Khu”
  • Chinese: “阿雷基帕大区”
  • Chinese: “阿雷基帕大區”
  • Czech: “Arekipa”
  • Czech: “Arequipa”
  • Danish: “Arequipa”
  • Dutch: “Arequipa”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اقليم اريكيبا”
  • Esperanto: “Departemento Arekipa”
  • Estonian: “Arequipa piirkond”
  • Finnish: “Arequipan alue”
  • French: “Arequipa”
  • French: “Département d’Arequipa”
  • French: “Region d’Arequipa”
  • Galician: “Departamento de Arequipa”
  • Georgian: “არეკიპა”
  • Georgian: “არეკიპის რეგიონი”
  • German: “Arequipa”
  • German: “PE-ARE”
  • German: “Region Arequipa”
  • Greek: “Επαρχία Αρεκουίπα”
  • Gujarati: “અરેક્વીપા પ્રદેશ”
  • Hebrew: “ארקיפה”
  • Hindi: “एरेकिपा प्रदेश”
  • Hungarian: “Arequipa megye”
  • Indonesian: “Arequipa region”
  • Indonesian: “Region Arequipa”
  • Irish: “Arequipa”
  • Italian: “Arequipa”
  • Italian: “regione di Arequipa”
  • Italian: “Regione di Arequipa”
  • Japanese: “アレキパ県”
  • Kannada: “ಅರೆಕ್ವಿಪಾ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
  • Korean: “아레키파주”
  • Ladino: “Arequipa”
  • Latin: “Arequipa Regio”
  • Latin: “Regio Arequipensis”
  • Latvian: “Arekipa reģions”
  • Lithuanian: “Arekipos departamentas”
  • Lithuanian: “Arekipos regionas”
  • Macedonian: “Арекипа”
  • Malay: “Negeri Arequipa”
  • Malay: “Region Arequipa”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Arequipa”
  • Malayalam: “അരെക്വിപ്പ”
  • Maltese: “Arequipa”
  • Marathi: “अरेक्विपा प्रदेश”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Arequipa Khu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Arequipa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Arequipa-regionen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Regionen Arequipa”
  • Norwegian: “Arequipa”
  • Persian: “منطقه ارکیپا”
  • Polish: “Arequipa”
  • Polish: “Region Arequipa”
  • Portuguese: “Arequipa”
  • Portuguese: “Departamento de Arequipa”
  • Quechua: “Ariqipa suyu”
  • Quechua: “Ariqipa Suyu”
  • Romanian: “Arequipa”
  • Russian: “Арекипа регион”
  • Russian: “Арекипа”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Arequipa (departman)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Arequipa”
  • Sinhala: “අරෙකුයිපා කලාපය”
  • Sinhala: “අරෙක්විපා දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, පේරු”
  • Slovenian: “Departamento de Arequipa”
  • Slovenian: “Departma Arequipa”
  • Slovenian: “PE-ARE”
  • Spanish: “Arequipa”
  • Spanish: “Departamento de Arequipa”
  • Spanish: “Departamento de la Ley”
  • Spanish: “Región Arequipa”
  • Spanish: “Región de Arequipa”
  • Swedish: “Arequipa”
  • Tamil: “அரோகுய்ப்பா பகுதி”
  • Telugu: “అరెక్విపా ప్రాంతం”
  • Thai: “แคว้นอาเรกิปา”
  • Turkish: “Arequipa bölgesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Арекіпа”
  • Ukrainian: “Регіон Арекіпа”
  • Urdu: “اریکیپا ریجن”
  • Urdu: “اریکیپا علاقہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Khu vực Arequipa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Arequipa”
  • Western Armenian: “Արեքիփա”
  • Western Panjabi: “اریکویپا”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿雷基帕大区”
  • “Arequipa”

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