1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Peru
Compare this sourced profile of Lima, Peru before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Lima—7,737,002, America/Lima, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: capital and largest city of Peru.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Lima is GeoNames ID 3936456. Its recorded administrative path is Lima Province → Peru, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Lima occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2023-10-25; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Lima ranks 35 by recorded population. Inside the 6 selected Peru entries it ranks 1; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 4. Its 7,737,002 population value is 6.84 times the 1,131,700 median for the country cohort and 9.48 times the 816,326 regional median. Lima is rank 1 among the 6 selected Peru entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Lima's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Lima's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Callao at 11.596 km with 1,226,200 recorded people; Trujillo at 488.567 km with 1,067,700 recorded people; Chiclayo at 663.233 km with 609,400 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 651.637 km. Compared with Callao, Lima's recorded population is 6.31 times as large. Against Lima, Callao follows Callao → Peru in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Peru cohort, uses the shared America/Lima identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Lima's. Against Lima, Trujillo follows Provincia de Trujillo → La Libertad → Peru in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Peru cohort, uses the shared America/Lima identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Lima's. Against Lima, Chiclayo follows Provincia de Chiclayo → Lambayeque → Peru in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Peru cohort, uses the shared America/Lima identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Lima's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 168 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Lima's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter of the atlas. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 3936456, the coordinate pair 12.0432 / 77.0282, country rank 1 of 6, and neighbor GeoNames 3946083 at 11.596 km bind Lima to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Lima's reference point is 12.0432° south and 77.0282° west. The IANA identifier America/Lima is shared by 6 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Lima's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Lima's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Lima's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Lima, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Lima's closest other entries in this atlas are Callao (11.596 km), Trujillo (488.567 km), Chiclayo (663.233 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2023-10-25; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.