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Peru: map and facts
Peru is in South America. It has about 34.6 million people (2025), the 48th largest population. It covers 1,285,216 km², the 19th largest by area. That is about 27 people per km². Its highest point is Nevado Huascaran, at 6,768 m. The longest river on its map is the Jurua, 3,100 km from source to mouth.
Facts
- Population: 34,576,665 (2025, World Bank)
- Area: 1,285,216 km² (2024, World Bank)
- Capital: Lima
- Highest point: Nevado Huascaran, 6,768 m (Wikidata)
- Forest: 52.7% of the land (2024, World Bank)
Rivers
The longest rivers on the map of Peru, with the length of each whole river (Wikidata):
- Jurua: 3,100 km
- Maranon: 1,737 km
- Putumayo: 1,610 km
- Ucayali: 1,460 km
- Napo: 1,130 km
- Huallaga: 1,080 km
- Madre de Dios: 1,060 km
- Javari: 1,056 km
- Santa: 347 km
- Tumbes: 200 km
Also on the map: Pisco, Amazon, Purus, Tambo, Ocona and Santiago.
Mountains and landscapes
Its highest peaks:
- Nevado Huascaran: 6,768 m (its highest point)
- Nevado Auzangate: 6,384 m
- Nevado Coropuna: 6,377 m
Mountain ranges: Andes, Selvas, Cordillera Central, Cordillera Occidental and Cordillera Oriental.
Plateaus, plains, deserts and other regions: Amazon Basin and Altiplano.
Land
Land cover seen from satellites (NASA MODIS, 2024): evergreen broadleaf forest 56.1%, grassland 25.5%, bare ground 7.4%, open shrubland 3.1%, savanna 2.7%, wooded savanna 2.7%.
Landforms, worked out from the height of the land (USGS GMTED2010): plains 35.9%, high mountains 24.2%, mountains 22.3%, plateaus 11.1%, hills 6.5%.
Forests covered 52.7% of its land in 2024, down from 60.2% in 1990 (World Bank).
Minerals and fuels
- World #2 in silver among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #2 in zinc among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #3 in copper among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #3 in lead among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #3 in tin among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #4 in molybdenum among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #9 in phosphate among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #10 in gold among the countries USGS lists (2025)
Neighbours
Peru shares land borders with Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Ecuador on this map.
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Sources
India’s boundaries are drawn according to India’s official position, simplified for small-scale maps (data: Natural Earth, India view). Each figure shows its year and source; some are rounded. Data release 2026.2.
- Natural Earth (naturalearthdata.com), public domain. Boundaries follow India's official position (Natural Earth's India point of view). Terms
- GMTED2010 courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey (Danielson and Gesch 2011, USGS Open-File Report 2011-1073). Terms
- Friedl, M., Sulla-Menashe, D. (2022). MODIS/Terra+Aqua Land Cover Type Yearly L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V061. NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC. doi:10.5067/MODIS/MCD12Q1.061. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL): UN Population Division, national statistical offices (2025 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Surface area (AG.SRF.TOTL.K2): FAO (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Forest area (% of land area) (AG.LND.FRST.ZS): FAO, FAOSTAT (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- Wikidata (CC0): names, capitals, peak heights and river lengths, checked by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- Credit: U.S. Geological Survey, Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 data release (doi:10.5066/P1WKQ63T). Terms
- Landforms worked out by Make Me Smarter from GMTED2010.
- Some figures corrected by Make Me Smarter from published references: Australian Bureau of Statistics; Atlas of Canada; CIA World Factbook (archived); FAO; FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025; FSM Statistics; GeoNames; Gilbertson & Gilbertson's GPS surveys of national high points; INEGI (Mexico); Peaklist.org; PeakVisor; Government of the Pitcairn Islands; Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program; Statistics Finland; UN Demographic Yearbook; UN World Population Prospects 2024; Wikidata; Wikipedia.
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