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Official name: Republic of Peru

Size: 496,225 square miles (1,285,216 square kilometers); slightly smaller than Alaska

Population:   29,248,943 as of 2011

Capital: Lima

Climate: Coastal areas, hot and dry; eastern lowlands, hot and humid; Andes, cooler

Official languages: Spanish and Quechua

Products: Potatoes, fish, rice, asparagus, cocoa; copper, lead, oil, gold, silver