Lima

Lima is the capital of and its largest city. Founded in 1535 by the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro, the modern city is a curious mix of the modern mega city with some 'islands of modernity', large but orderly slum areas and colonial architecture in downtown.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Central Lima and Miraflores.
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, comprises the districts of Lima…
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is a suburb or barrio of Lima the capital city of .
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Western Lima includes the Chorrillos, San Isidro…

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Barranco and South Lima.
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is a suburb or barrio of Lima the capital city of .
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Southern Lima includes the districts of San Borja…
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Eastern Lima describes the districts of La Molina…
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Rio Rimac North is the section of Lima north of Rio…

Places of Interest

Highlights include Plaza Mayor and Metropolitan Cathedral of Lima.
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The , also known as the Plaza de Armas…
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The Cathedral Basilica of Lima, commonly known as the…
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The Museum of Italian Art is a public museum in Lima, Peru.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Santa Beatriz.
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is a neighbourhood of .

Lima

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Latitude
-12.05° or 12° 3′ south
Longitude
-77.05° or 77° 3′ west
UN/LOCODE
PE LIM
Open location code
57V4XX22+22
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4289361265
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3936456
Wiki­data ID
Q2868

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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Lima” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Лима”
  • Adyghe: “Лима”
  • Afrikaans: “Lima”
  • Albanian: “Lima”
  • Amharic: “ሊማ”
  • Angika: “लीमा”
  • Arabic: “ليما”
  • Aragonese: “Lima”
  • Armenian: “Լիմա”
  • Arpitan: “Lima”
  • Asturian: “Lima”
  • Aymara: “Lima”
  • Azerbaijani: “Lima”
  • Balinese: “Lima (kota)”
  • Balinese: “Lima”
  • Bambara: “Lima”
  • Basque: “Lima”
  • Bavarian: “Lima”
  • Belarusian: “Ліма”
  • Bengali: “লিমা”
  • Bhojpuri: “लीमा”
  • Bosnian: “Lima”
  • Breton: “Lima”
  • Bulgarian: “Лима”
  • Burmese: “လီမာမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Lima”
  • Cebuano: “Lima”
  • Central Bikol: “Lima, Peru”
  • Central Bikol: “Lima”
  • Central Kanuri: “Lima”
  • Central Kurdish: “لیما”
  • Chavacano: “Lima”
  • Chechen: “Лима”
  • Chimborazo Highland Quichua: “Lima”
  • Chinese: “利馬/利马”
  • Chinese: “利馬”
  • Chinese: “利马”
  • Chuvash: “Лима”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Lima”
  • Croatian: “Lima”
  • Czech: “Lima”
  • Danish: “Lima”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Lima”
  • Dotyali: “लिमा”
  • Dutch: “Lima”
  • Eastern Mari: “Лима”
  • Eastern Mari: “Лиме”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ليما”
  • Esperanto: “Limo”
  • Estonian: “Lima”
  • Extremaduran: “Lima”
  • Faroese: “Lima”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Lima”
  • Fijian: “Lima”
  • Finnish: “Lima”
  • French: “Lima”
  • Friulian: “Lima”
  • Gagauz: “Lima”
  • Galician: “Lima”
  • Georgian: “ლიმა”
  • German: “Lima”
  • Greek: “Λίμα”
  • Guarani: “Lima”
  • Guarani: “Líma”
  • Gujarati: “લીમા”
  • Haitian: “Lima”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Lima”
  • Hausa: “Lima”
  • Hawaiian: “Lima”
  • Hebrew: “לימה”
  • Hindi: “लीमा”
  • Hungarian: “Lima”
  • Icelandic: “Líma”
  • Ido: “Lima”
  • Inari Sami: “Lima”
  • Indonesian: “Lima, Peru”
  • Indonesian: “Lima”
  • Interlingua: “Lima”
  • Interlingue: “Lima”
  • Irish: “Líoma”
  • Italian: “Lima”
  • Japanese: “リマ”
  • Javanese: “Lima, Peru”
  • Javanese: “Lima”
  • Kabyle: “Lima”
  • Kalaallisut: “Lima”
  • Kannada: “ಲಿಮಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Lima”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Лима”
  • Kazakh: “Лима қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Лима”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Lima”
  • Kirghiz: “Лима”
  • Komering: “Lima”
  • Kongo: “Lima”
  • Korean: “리마”
  • Kotava: “Lima”
  • Kurdish: “Lîma”
  • Ladino: “Lima”
  • Latin: “Lima”
  • Latvian: “Lima”
  • Ligurian: “Lima”
  • Ligurian: “Limma”
  • Ligurian: “Lìmma”
  • Lingala: “Lima”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Lima”
  • Literary Chinese: “利馬”
  • Lithuanian: “Lima”
  • Livvi: “Lima”
  • Lombard: “Lima”
  • Low German: “Lima”
  • Luxembourgish: “Lima”
  • Macedonian: “Лима”
  • Malagasy: “Lima”
  • Malay: “Lima”
  • Malayalam: “ലിമ”
  • Maltese: “Lima”
  • Manx: “Lima”
  • Maori: “Lima”
  • Maori: “Rima”
  • Marathi: “लिमा”
  • Mazanderani: “لیما”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Lima”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lima”
  • Minangkabau: “Lima”
  • Mingrelian: “ლიმა”
  • Mirandese: “Lima”
  • Moksha: “Лима”
  • Mongolian: “Лима”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ليما”
  • Nauru: “Lima”
  • Northern Frisian: “Liima”
  • Northern Sami: “Lima”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lima”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lima”
  • Norwegian: “Lima”
  • Novial: “Lima”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lima”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Lima”
  • Oriya: “ଲିମା”
  • Ossetian: “Лимæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਲੀਮਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Lima”
  • Persian: “لیما”
  • Piemontese: “Lima”
  • Polish: “Lima”
  • Portuguese: “Lima”
  • Quechua: “Limaq”
  • Romanian: “Lima”
  • Romansh: “Lima”
  • Russian: “Лима”
  • Sakizaya: “lima”
  • Samogitian: “Lima”
  • Santali: “ᱞᱤᱢᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Lima”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Lima”
  • Scots: “Lima”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Lima”
  • Serbian: “Лима”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lima”
  • Shan: “ဝဵင်းလိမႃႇ”
  • Shona: “Lima”
  • Sicilian: “Lima”
  • Silesian: “Lima”
  • Sindhi: “ليما”
  • Sinhala: “ලිමා”
  • Sinhala: “ලීමා”
  • Skolt Sami: “Lima”
  • Slovak: “Lima”
  • Slovenian: “Lima”
  • Slovenian: “Mesto kraljev”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لیما”
  • Southern Altai: “Лина”
  • Southern Sotho: “Lima”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de los Balcones”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de los Reyes”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad Milenaria”
  • Spanish: “Fábio Virginio de Lima”
  • Spanish: “La Perla del Pacífico”
  • Spanish: “La Tres Veces Coronada Villa”
  • Spanish: “Lima”
  • Spanish: “Límac”
  • Spanish: “Límaq”
  • Spanish: “Lyma”
  • Spanish: “Rímac”
  • Spanish: “Rímaq”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵍⵉⵎⴰ”
  • Swahili: “Lima”
  • Swedish: “Lima”
  • Swiss German: “Lima”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Lima”
  • Tahitian: “Lima”
  • Tajik: “Лима”
  • Talysh: “Lima”
  • Tamil: “லிமா”
  • Tamil: “லீமா”
  • Tatar: “Лима”
  • Telugu: “లీమా”
  • Tetum: “Lima”
  • Thai: “ลิมา”
  • Tibetan: “ལི་མ།”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Lima”
  • Turkish: “Lima”
  • Turkmen: “Lima”
  • Tyap: “A̱keang Á̱gwam”
  • Tyap: “Lima”
  • Udmurt: “Лима”
  • Uighur: “لىما”
  • Ukrainian: “Ліма”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Lima”
  • Urdu: “لیما”
  • Uzbek: “Lima”
  • Venetian: “Lima”
  • Veps: “Lim”
  • Vietnamese: “Lima”
  • Vlax Romani: “Lima”
  • Volapük: “Lima”
  • Võro: “Lima”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lima”
  • Welsh: “Lima”
  • Western Armenian: “Լիմա”
  • Western Frisian: “Lima”
  • Western Panjabi: “لیما”
  • Wu Chinese: “利马”
  • Yiddish: “לימא”
  • Yoruba: “Lima”
  • Yue Chinese: “利馬”
  • Zeeuws: “Lima”
  • Zulu: “i-Lima”
  • “ma tomo Lima”

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