List of metropolitan areas of Peru

The following is a list of the most populous Peruvian metropolitan areas with over 300,000 inhabitants.

Note that the populations of metropolitan areas are not city populations but rather a combination of a main large city and many other smaller satellite cities. In Peru, cities with a population of more than 500,000 and with a metropolitan development plan are considered metropolises. As of the 2007 census, these cities are Lima, Arequipa, and Trujillo.

Composition

• Lima metropolitan area

Lima metropolitan area is composed of 5 sub regions that group 43 urban districts of Lima Province and 6 districts of Callao Province. These sub regions are the Lima Norte, Lima Sur, Lima Este, Central Lima, and Callao with a total estimated population in 2015 of 9.886.647 people.

• Arequipa Metropolitan Area

• Trujillo Metropolitan Area

• Chiclayo Metropolitan Area

• Piura: Piura, Castilla, Catacaos.

• Iquitos: Iquitos, Punchana, San Juan Bautista, Belén.

• Cusco: San Jerónimo, Cusco, Santiago, Wanchaq, San Sebastián.

• Chimbote: Chimbote, Nuevo Chimbote y Coishco.

• Huancayo: Huancayo, El Tambo, Chilca.

See also

• List of cities in Peru
• List of regions by population of Peru
• Peru

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