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title: "India vs Peru — area, population, currency"
description: "India is 3,287,263 km² with 1,463,865,525 people; Peru is 1,285,216 km² with 34,576,665. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/india-vs-peru/
site: "At One Place"
---

# India vs Peru

**India vs Peru: India is larger; India has more people**

3,287,263 km² vs 1,285,216 km² · 1,463,865,525 vs 34,576,665

India is 2.6 times larger than Peru — 3,287,263 against 1,285,216 km². India is 42 times more populous than Peru — 1,463,865,525 against 34,576,665 people.

## Side by side

|  | India | Peru |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | New Delhi | Lima |
| Area | 3,287,263 km² | 1,285,216 km² |
| Population | 1,463,865,525 (2025) | 34,576,665 (2025) |
| Density | 445.3 /km² | 26.9 /km² |
| Currency | Indian rupee (INR) | Peruvian sol (PEN) |
| Official languages | Hindi, English | Aymara, Quechua, Spanish |
| Time zones | UTC+05:30 | UTC-05:00 |
| Calling code | +91 | +51 |
| Drives on the | left | right |
| Continent | Asia | South America |
| ISO codes | IN / IND | PE / PER |

## Population density

India is 17 times more densely populated than Peru — 445 against 27 people per km². Density is where area and population interact, and it often reverses the impression the headline figures give — a large country with a small population can feel emptier than a small crowded one by an enormous margin.

## Practical differences

- They drive on opposite sides — India on the left, Peru on the right.
- Different currencies: the Indian rupee and the Peruvian sol.
- Different continents — Asia and South America.

## India

The most populous country in the world since 2023. The Ganges-Brahmaputra system drains the southern Himalaya into the largest delta on Earth, and Mawsynram and Cherrapunji in Meghalaya are the wettest inhabited places on record, with roughly 11 m of rain a year. Mumbai is the largest individual municipality; the Delhi urban agglomeration, which contains the capital, is larger still at around 33 million.

## Peru

Peru holds the source of the Amazon and about sixty percent of its territory is Amazon basin, but most people live on the dry Pacific coast. Cotahuasi and Colca are among the deepest canyons in the world, both over 3,000 m. The Nazca lines, drawn on the coastal desert between about 500 BC and AD 500, cover some 450 km² and are only legible from the air or the surrounding hills.

> Neutral facts only. Nothing here addresses politics, government, economics or which country is preferable in any respect — population is the one figure that dates, and it carries its year.

## Common questions

### Is India bigger than Peru?

India is larger — 3,287,263 km² against 1,285,216 km².

### Which has more people, India or Peru?

India, with 1,463,865,525 against 34,576,665.

### What is the time difference between India and Peru?

India is UTC+05:30 and Peru is UTC-05:00. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

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## Sources

- The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency (https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/) [Public domain (US Government)]
- World Bank Open Data — The World Bank (https://data.worldbank.org/) [CC BY 4.0]