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There are 196 provinces in Peru, grouped into 25 regions, except for Lima Province which does not belong to any region. This makes an average of seven provinces per region. The region with the fewest provinces is Callao (one) and the region with the most is Ancash (twenty).
Peru is located on the central western coast of South America facing the Pacific Ocean. It lies wholly in the Southern Hemisphere, its northernmost extreme reaching to 1.8 minutes of latitude or about 3.3 kilometres (2.1 mi) south of the equator, covers 1,285,216 km 2 (496,225 sq mi) of western South America.
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En el ordenamiento jurídico del Perú, las provincias son subdivisiones de los departamentos. Son las circunscripciones político-administrativos de segundo orden, por detrás de los departamentos y por delante de los distritos y centros poblados . El gobierno de cada provincia está a cargo de una municipalidad provincial encabezada por un ...
- The Provinces as Administrative Divisions
- The Provinces as Constituencies
- Statistics
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The provinces are the first–level administrative subdivisions of the country. The headquarters of the central government's regional offices are normally found in the capital cities of provinces. The president appoints an administrative governor (Gobernador Civil) for each province but not for the Distrito Nacional (Title IX of the constitution). Th...
The provinces are also constituencies for the elections to the bicameral National Congress (Congreso de la República). Each province elects one member of the Senate (Senado) and a guaranteed minimum of two members of the Chamber of Deputies (Cámara de Diputados).
The following is a table of the provinces and their capital cities. The population figures are from the 2021 population estimate.
(in Spanish) Oficina Nacional de Estadística (National Statistics Office). Official statistics portal of the Dominican Republic.(in Spanish) Blog of the Dominican Republic, videos, news, culture and musicProvincias. Amazonas. Chachapoyas. 39.249,13. • Chachapoyas • Bagua • Bongará • Condorcanqui • Luya • Rodríguez de Mendoza • Utcubamba. Ancash. Huaraz. 35.914,81. Huaraz • Aija • Antonio Raymondi • Asunción • Bolognesi • Carhuaz • Carlos F. Fitzcarrald • Casma • Corongo • Huari • Huarmey • Huaylas ...
Provinces of Peru. From Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The table below shows all provinces of Peru. It lists their capitals and the regions that they are in. The UBIGEO code identifies each province. Capitals in bold are also a regional capital.
31 December 1828. Preceded by. Succeeded by. Bolivia. Bolivia. Today part of. Bolivia. The Republic of Upper Peru ( Spanish: República del Alto Perú) was an unrecognized state formed in 1828 after a revolt led by Pedro Blanco Soto and José Ramón de Loayza Pacheco as a consequence of the 1828 Peruvian–Bolivian War .
