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Peru (nation)
Coordinates:
Lat: 10 00 00 S degrees minutes Lat: -10.0000 decimal degrees
Long: 076 00 00 W degrees minutes Long: -76.0000 decimal degrees
Note: Area was inhabited by 8000 BCE; advanced cultures existed by 13th century; seat of Incan empire established ca. 1230, conquest of neighbors began in 1438; Spanish arrived in 1524, invaded Incan area and killed king; area remained loyal to Spain into the 19th century; official languages are Spanish and Quechua, though Aymará is also spoken.
Names:
Perú (preferred C ,V ,Quechuan-P ,U ,N )Perú Aymaran-P ,U ,N )Perú Spanish-P ,U ,N )Perú Catalan )Perú Aragonese )Perú Asturian )Perú Galician )Perú Icelandic )Perú Faroese )Perú Tetum )República del Perú (C ,V ,O ,Spanish ,U ,N )Peru (C ,O ,English-P ,U ,N )Peru Rundi )Peru Wolof )Peru Somali )Peru Tagalog )Peru Maltese )Peru Uzbek )Peru Vietnamese )Peru Ilocano )Peru Indonesian )Peru Ganda (Ugandan language) )Peru Azerbaijani )Peru Bambara )Peru Croatian )Peru Bosnian )Peru Latvian )Peru Magyar (Hungarian) )Peru Danish )Peru Norwegian (Nynorsk) )Peru Finnish )Peru Swedish )Peru Polish )Peru Portuguese )Peru Romanian )Peru Slovak )Peru Slovene )Peru Basque )Peru Akan )Peru Hausa )Peru German )Peru Low German )Peru Czech )Peru Dutch )Peru Afrikaans )Peru Lithuanian )Peru Greenlandic )Peru Turkish )Peru Luxembourgish )Peru Norwegian (Bokmål) )Peru Romansh )Peru Fulah )Peru Kikuyu )Peru Luba-Katanga )Peru Malay (macrolanguage) )Peru Norwegian )Peru Pampanga )Peru Northern Sami )Peru Shona )Peru Swahili (generic) )Peru Ido )Peru Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association) )Republic of Peru (C ,O ,English ,U ,N )Pérou (C ,O ,French-P ,U ,N )République du Pérou (C ,O ,French ,U ,N )Перу (C ,O ,Tajik )Перу Chuvash )Перу Serbian )Перу Macedonian )Перу Bulgarian )Перу Russian-P ,U )Перу Ukrainian )Перу Belarusian )Республика Перу (C ,O ,Russian ,U )秘鲁 (C ,O ,Chinese-P ,U )秘鲁共和国 (C ,O ,Chinese ,U )بيرو (C ,O ,Arabic-P ,U )جُهور ةً بيرو (C ,O ,Arabic ,U )PER (C ,O ,ISO3L )PE (C ,O ,ISO2L )ISO604 (C ,O ,ISO3N )Peruvian (C ,O ,English ,U ,A )פרו (C ,U ,Hebrew )El Perú (C ,U )Incatlān (C ,U ,Nahuatl )i-Peru (C ,U ,Zulu )Orílẹ́ède Peru (C ,U ,Yoruba )Pearù (C ,U ,Scots Gaelic )Peiriú (C ,U ,Irish Gaelic )Pelū (C ,U ,Tonga (Tonga Islands) )Periw (C ,U ,Welsh )Peró (C ,U ,Occitan )Peroa (C ,U ,Malagasy )Perou (C ,U ,Breton )Perou Cornish )Pèrou (C ,U ,Arpitan )Pê-ru (C ,U ,Vietnamese )Perù (C ,U ,Corsican )Perù Italian )Perù Ligurian )Perù Sicilian )Pēru (C ,U ,Kashmiri )Péru (C ,U ,Lingala )Peruja (C ,U ,Albanian )Peru nutome (C ,U ,Ewe )Peruo (C ,U ,Esperanto )Peruu (C ,U ,Estonian )Perüu (C ,U ,Sangho )Peruvän (C ,U ,Volapük )Peruvia (C ,U ,Latin )Perw (C ,U ,Welsh )Pheru (C ,U ,North Ndebele )Piruw (C ,U ,Quechuan )Piruw Ayamará )پرو (C ,U ,Persian-Farsi )เปรู (C ,U ,Thai )Պերու (C ,U ,Armenian )ペルー (C ,U ,Japanese )ເປລູ (C ,U ,Lao )পিরু (C ,U ,Bengali )पेरु (C ,U ,Sanskrit )पेरु Hindi )פערו (C ,U ,Yiddish )پېرۇ (C ,U ,Uyghur )ប៉េរូ (C ,U ,Khmer )Пэру (C ,U ,Belarusian )पेरू (C ,U ,Marathi )पेरू Hindi )पेरू Nepali )Περού (C ,U ,Greek )பெரு (C ,U ,Tamil )পেরু (C ,U ,Bengali )페루 (C ,U ,Korean )ፔሩ (C ,U ,Tigrinya )ፔሩ Amharic )პერუ (C ,U ,Georgian )پيرو (C ,U ,Pashto )ประเทศเปรู (C ,U ,Thai )པེ་རུ། (C ,U ,Tibetan )పెరూ (C ,U ,Telugu )ပီရူး (C ,U ,Burmese )پیرو (C ,U ,Urdu )પેરુ (C ,U ,Gujarati )ಪೆರು (C ,U ,Kannada )පේරු (C ,U ,Sinhala )ପେରୁ (C ,U ,Odia )پیروو (C ,U ,Kurdish )ペルー共和国 (C ,U ,Japanese )പെറു (C ,U ,Malayalam )
Hierarchical Position:
........ Peru (nation) (P )
Place Types:
nation (preferred C ) ............ independence declared on July 28, 1821, was completely achieved in December 1842
primary political unit (C )
independent sovereign nation (C )
republic (C )
independent political entity (C )
Related geographic places:
capital is .... Lima .................. (World, South America, Peru, Lima department) [7005821]
member of .... United Nations ................ (World) [7029605] ................ joined organization in 1945
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