CAPITAL

Lima

POPULATION

28,302,603 (July 2006 est.)

AREA

total: 1,285,220 sq km
land: 1.28 million sq km
water: 5,220 sq km
slightly smaller than Alaska

GOVERNMENT

constitutional republic

MONEY

nuevo sol (PEN)

CLIMATE

varies from tropical in east to dry desert in west; temperate to
frigid in Andes

LANGUAGES

Spanish (official), Quechua (official), Aymara, and a large
number of minor Amazonian languages

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