City Map Compare/Arequipa vs Lima
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Arequipa

166 km²

Lima

984 km²

Arequipa vs Lima: Urban Area Size

Lima covers 984 km² of contiguous built-up land, 5.9× the built-up area of Arequipa (166 km²).

ArequipaLima
Urban areaArequipaLima
Population (2025)1.00 million10.8 million
Built-up area166 km²984 km²
Density6,053 /km²11,004 /km²

Urban area = contiguous built-up land and the people living in it in 2025, drawn the same way for every city regardless of administrative boundaries. Source: GHSL Urban Centre Database R2024A, European Commission, Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0); some names adjusted to the city names people use, and country attribution follows the dataset.

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