Local time
Tue, 1:01 AM GMT-5America/LimaCityCapital
Lima
12.05° S, 77.05° W
- Population
- 8,012,000
- Natural Earth
- Population rank
- 1 of 41
- Rank by Natural Earth population among the 41 cities of Peru in Terratlasia that have a population figure. Terratlasia does not list every city of Peru, so this is not a national ranking.
- Founded
- 1535
- Year of founding from Wikidata (P571). Only the year is known, not the day; a city whose sources give more than one year shows no row.
- Elevation
- 154 m
- Elevation above sea level from Wikidata (P2044), rounded to the metre. A city whose sources give two different elevations shows no row.
- Area
- 2,672 km²
- Total area from Wikidata (P2046). Where two statements differ by less than half a percent the smaller is shown; a larger disagreement (land area against total area, say) shows no row.
- Administrative unit
- Lima
- The administrative unit Wikidata files this city under (P131), one level below the state. The state itself is shown on its own row and is not repeated here; a city filed under more than three units shows no row at all.
- Time zone
- America/Lima
Traveler brief
Only what this atlas can source — no hours, prices, visas or safety advice.
Practical bearings for Lima, from the same records as the rest of this page.
No places in Lima have been recorded yet. The map and the country page still carry its context.
Overview
Name
An early Spanish mispronunciation, Lima comes from the Quechua name "Rimak", which refers to a god and derives from "rima", "to speak". Quechua priests used to speak to worshippers from inside statues of their gods.
Source: CIA World Factbook · 2026-02-01 · text generated from this source, approved by a person
