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CAPITAL
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Lima
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POPULATION
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28,302,603 (July 2006 est.)
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AREA
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total: 1,285,220 sq km
land: 1.28 million sq km
water: 5,220 sq km
slightly smaller than Alaska
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GOVERNMENT
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constitutional republic
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MONEY
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nuevo sol (PEN)
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CLIMATE
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varies from tropical in east to dry desert in west; temperate to
frigid in Andes
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LANGUAGES
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Spanish (official), Quechua (official), Aymara, and a large
number of minor Amazonian languages
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