City Map Compare/Lima vs Santa Cruz de la Sierra
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Lima

984 km²

Santa Cruz de la Sierra

303 km²

Lima vs Santa Cruz de la Sierra: Urban Area Size

Lima covers 984 km² of contiguous built-up land, 3.2× the built-up area of Santa Cruz de la Sierra (303 km²).

LimaSanta Cruz de la Sierra
Urban areaLimaSanta Cruz de la Sierra
Population (2025)10.8 million2.02 million
Built-up area984 km²303 km²
Density11,004 /km²6,656 /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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