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   Note: This section last updated 6th December 2020

   1.234,45

(where , indicates the decimal separator and . the thousands separator)

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   14:32

The official languages are Spanish (20 000 000 speakers) and Quechua (3 821 000 speakers in 33 different forms). 61 other, mainly Indian, languages are spoken, and bilingualism is limited. The main one is Central Aymara (350 320 speakers around Lake Titicaca).

The abbreviation used for Señorita in Peru is Srta.

Each person usually has a given name followed by two family names, that of the father followed by that of the mother, for example:

   Barbara Betancourt Perez

Upon marriage, females may take their husband’s name as a further given name, in this way:

   Barbara Betancourt Perez de Lopez

where the de indicates “(wife) of”. De usually indicates a married female, but may also be part of a name.

Professional people are often referred to by their qualification, followed by the given name and paternal family name (and sometimes the maternal family name):

   Arquitecto (m) / Arquitecta (f)          Architect
   Doctor (m) / Doctora (f) (Dr/Dra)        Doctor/Ph.D./Lawyer
   Ingeniero (m) / Ingeniera (f) (Ing.)     Engineer
   Profesor (Prof.)                         Professor, higher education teachers

This is in turn preceded by the gender form of address:

   Señor Doctor Orlando Morale García

   Tables of names can be acquired: given names , surnames/family names , family name prefixes , forms of address , job titles 

The following company types are commonly found in Peru:

   EIRL – Empresa Individual de Responsabilidad Limitada (personal business with limited liability)
   SA - Sociedad Anónima
   SAA
   SAC
   S. en C. – Sociedad en Comandita (limited partnership)

   Comprehensive tables of these strings can be acquired – see http:www.grcdi.nl/addresses.htm 

   Note: This section last updated 8th September 2020

The address format for Peru is:

   {thoroughfare type[ ]}Thoroughfare name[ ]number{[ ]sub-building details}
   postal code
   POSTAL TOWN

for example

A sub-locality may be written directly after the street address in this way:

   calle La Merced 125, Miraflores 

If the street is numbered, the building number is usually written after “N^o” to distinguish it from the street number, in this way:

   calle 20 No 17 

If the address is written in Spanish and the thoroughfare type is calle (Street), then this may not be written in the address. The thoroughfare type is written commencing with a lower-case letter. For a full list of thoroughfare types, please refer to the chapter on Spain.

Address for the cities of Lima and Callao may have a one- or two-digit sorting code written to the right of the city name where the new postal code is not used.

   A table containing information about the relevant position of elements within address blocks can be acquired 

This is written Apartado Postal in Peru. Casilla Postal is also found.

   Note: This section last updated 8th September 2020

Peru’s postal code has the format:

99999

Each code points to a locality. The first two numbers indicate the region or province and can range between 01 and 25.

   Metadata containing postal code formatting rules, exceptions and regular expressions can be acquired 

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Peru - Postal code format

Peru - Postal code specifics

Peru - Postal code regular expression

Peru - Postal code level of coverage

Peru - Postal code map

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Refer to Exonyms in Peru for full lists of place names in Peru in other languages.

   Alternate place name forms/postal code tables can be acquired at http://www.grcdi.nl/settlements.htm 

   Other language place name data can be acquired at http://www.grcdi.nl/otherlanguageplace.htm 

   Note: This section last updated 8th September 2020

Peru has 25 regions and 1 constitutional province (provincia constitucional, shown in the list below with an asterisk):

Region	Postal code range
Amazonas	01
Ancash	02
Apurímac	03
Arequipa	04
Ayacucho	05
Cajamarca	06
Callao *	07
Cusco	08
Huancavelica	09
Huánuco	10
Ica	11
Junín	12
La Libertad	13
Lambayeque	14
Lima (municipality)	15 (shared with Lima)
Lima	15 (shared with Lima (municipality))
Loreto	16
Madre de Dios	17
Moquegua	18
Pasco	19
Piura	20
Puno	21
San Martin	22
Tacna	23
Tumbes	24
Ucayali	25

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Land line numbers have a total length of 8 digits (with area codes of 1-2 digits), mobile numbers have 9 digits. Mobile numbers commence with a 9.