Map of Peru

Peru is located in South America. Its territory lies in the southern and western hemispheres, centred near 10.0° S, 76.0° W. It shares land borders with 5 countries — Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Ecuador — and also has its own coastline. Within South America, a continent of 12 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, Peru is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Peru shares land frontiers with the following 5 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Peru covers about 1,285,216 km² (496,225 sq mi). That makes it the 19th-largest country in the world by area and the 3rd-largest in South America, larger by area than 9 of the continent’s 12 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 34,350,244, the 43rd-largest in the world and the 4th-largest in South America, accounting for about 7.9% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Peru has an average population density of about 27 people per km². Among the 12 countries of South America it stands 4th by population and 3rd by area.

The seat of government is Lima, and the official currency is the Peruvian sol (PEN, S/ ), and the main official languages are Aymara, Quechua and Spanish. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC-05:00.

Peru carries the ISO country codes PE and PER, dials on the international calling code +51 and uses the .pe internet domain.

Peru shares its land borders with 5 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Brazil (capital Brasília, about 213,421,037 people), Colombia (capital Bogotá, about 53,057,212 people), Chile (capital Santiago, about 20,206,953 people), Ecuador (capital Quito, about 18,103,660 people) and Bolivia (capital Sucre, about 11,365,333 people).

By area, Peru is larger than 4 of these neighbours and smaller than 1 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 10.0° S, 76.0° W and opens at zoom level 4, framing Peru within South America. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Lima. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Peru lies about 1,110 km from the equator, in the southern and western hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Peru keeps a single standard time zone, UTC-05:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit -05:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Peruvian sol (PEN, S/ ).

The official languages are Aymara, Quechua and Spanish, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +51 and websites commonly use the .pe internet domain.

In short, Peru is a coastal country in South America, sharing land borders with 5 countries. Its capital is Lima. Peru has a population of about 34,350,244 and covers around 1,285,216 km² (496,225 sq mi), ranking it 43rd in the world by population and 19th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Peru.

The flag of Peru is composed of three equal vertical bands of red, white and red, with the national emblem centered in the white band.

The flag of Peru is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.