| Lima |
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View o Lima Destrict frae the San Cristobal hill. |
Banner |
Seal |
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| Eik-name(s): Ceety o Keengs |
| Motto: Hoc signum vere regum est − |
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Lima Province an Lima athin Peru |
| Coordinates: 12°2′36″S 77°1′42″W / 12.04333°S 77.02833°W / -12.04333; -77.02833 |
| Kintra |
Peru |
| Region |
Lima Region |
| Province |
Lima Province |
| Destricts |
43 destricts |
| Govrenment |
| - Mayor |
Susana Villarán |
| Aurie |
| - City |
2,672.3 km2 (1,031.8 sq mi) |
| - Urban |
800 km2 (308.9 sq mi) |
| - Metro |
2,819.3 km2 (1,088.5 sq mi) |
| Hicht |
0–1,548 m (0–5,079 ft) |
| Indwallers (2007)[1] |
| - City |
7,605,742 |
| - Densitie |
2,846.1/km2 (Expression error: Unrecognised word "roond"./sq mi) |
| - Metro |
8,472,935 |
| - Metro densitie |
3,008.7/km2 (Expression error: Unrecognised word "roond"./sq mi) |
| - Demonym |
Limean (Spainyie: Limeño/a) |
| Time zone |
PET (UTC−5) |
| Wabsteid |
www.munlima.gob.pe |
Lima is the caipital an lairgest ceety o Peru. It is locatit in the valleys o the Chillón, Rímac an Lurín rivers, on a desert coast owerleukin the Paceefic Ocean. Thegither wi the seaport o Callao, it forms a contiguous urban aurie kent as the Lima Metropolitan Area. With a population fast approaching 9 million, Lima is the fift lairgest ceety in Latin Americae, efter Mexico Ceety, São Paulo, Buenos Aires an Rio de Janeiro. Lima haes been defined as a beta warld ceety.
Lima wis foondit bi Spainyie conquistador Francisco Pizarro on Januar 18, 1535, as La Ciudad de los Reyes, or "The Ceety o Keengs." It became the caipital an maist important ceety in the Spainyie Viceroyalty o Peru. Follaein the Peruvian War o Unthirldom, it became the caipital o the Republic o Peru. The day, aroond ane-third o the Peruvian population lives in the metropolitan area.
[edit] Etymology
Accordin tae early Spaiyie chronicles the Lima aurie wis ance cried Itchyma, efter its oreeginal inhabitants. Housomeivver, even afore the Inca occupation o the aurie in the 15t century, a famous oracle in the Rímac valley haed come to be kent bi visitors as limaq (limaq, pronoonced Template:IPA-qu, which means "talker" in coastal Quechua). This oracle wis eventually destroyed bi the Spainyie an replaced wi a kirk, but the name persistit in the local leid, thus the chronicles show "Límac" replacin "Ychma" as the common name for the aurie.
[edit] Internaitional relations
[edit] Twin touns — Sister ceeties
Lima is twinned wi:[2]
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