Key facts
- Country
- Peru
- Department
- Lima
- Founded
- January 18, 1535
- Capital
- Lima
- Mayor
- Rafael López Aliaga
- Total
- 2,672.28 km (1,031.77 sq mi)
- Density
- 4,236.5/km (10,972/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC-5 ( PET )
- Website
- www.munlima.gob.pe
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- first-level administrative division
- Official name
- Provincia de Lima
- Country
- Peru
- Located in
- Lima Department
- Contains
- Villa María del Triunfo
- Capital
- Lima
- Population
- 5706127
- Area
- 2672.28
- Time zone
- Q5390
- Shares border with
- Cañete Province
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- Commons category
- Lima Province
- topic's main category
- Category:Lima province
- native label
- Provincia de Lima
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Encyclopedic overview
Lima ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈli.ma]), also called Metropolitan Lima (Spanish: Lima Metropolitana), is a province of the department of Lima, Peru. Located in its central coast, it operates under a quasi-autonomous special regime, and is thus not under the jurisdiction of the department's regional government. Its capital is Lima, which is also the nation's capital.
Despite its small area, this province is the major industrial and economic powerhouse of the Peruvian economy. It concentrates almost one-third of the country's population and 50% of Peru's GDP in 2012.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lima” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.