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Can you locate all 33 departments of Colombia?
Can you place all 56 provinces of Chile?
Can you locate all 16 regions of Chile?
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Peru is three countries stacked side by side: a desert coast, the Andes, and the Amazon basin that fills more than half the area. Knowing you are in it says little about where, and the region is the unit that fixes it. Each has been run by an elected regional government since 2002, and most Peruvians can place the coastal ones and the Andean south, then lose the rest somewhere in the jungle.
The map has the 24 departments, which Peru calls regions, and two more units at the same level: Callao, a constitutional province with a regional government of its own, and Lima Province, which is the capital itself. Lima Province is not part of the Lima Region that surrounds it. It is run by the metropolitan municipality, so the region drawn around it has the same name and a different capital, and both are answers here.
Callao and Lima Province are far too small to tap at the scale of the whole country, so both take a tap area wider than their shape.
The groups above the regions have no government. The Norte is the northern coast and the Andes behind it, the Centro holds the capital and the central highlands, the Sur is the high Andes down to the Chilean border together with Madre de Dios, and the Oriente is the Amazon, which is Loreto, San Martín and Ucayali.
Lima Province is the city and its surroundings, and it is not part of the Lima Region, which is drawn around it. It is the one to find first when you are lost on the central coast, and the reason the map holds two answers called Lima.
Callao is Peru's main port and the airport the capital uses, and it is the only constitutional province that is also a region. On the map it is a sliver against Lima Province, which it touches along the coast.
Loreto is the largest region by a wide margin and takes in the northeast corner of the country, bordering Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil. It has the river port of Iquitos, which has no road to the rest of Peru.
25 regional governments: the 24 departments, which have been called regions since 2002, and the Constitutional Province of Callao. Lima Province is a 26th unit at the same level but has no regional government, so this game counts 26 answers.
No. The city is administered by the Metropolitan Municipality of Lima and is separate from the Lima Region around it, whose capital is Huacho. Here they are two answers.
They cover the Amazon basin, where few people live. The population is on the coast and in the Andes, which is why the regions there are smaller.
The macroregions planners and the statistics office use for the country. They are not administrative divisions, and they are the groups this game is cut by.
Peru has 196 of them, and they are the next tier down. See Peru Provinces for that map.
The tier below this one is Peru Provinces, and the 26 answers here are the 26 groups there, so it is the place to go once the regions come easily. For another Andean country at this level, see Colombia Departments.
