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title: "Peru vs United States — area, population, currency"
description: "Peru is 1,285,216 km² with 34,576,665 people; United States is 9,833,517 km² with 341,784,857. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/peru-vs-united-states/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Peru vs United States

**Peru vs United States: United States is larger; United States has more people**

1,285,216 km² vs 9,833,517 km² · 34,576,665 vs 341,784,857

United States is 7.7 times larger than Peru — 9,833,517 against 1,285,216 km². United States is 9.9 times more populous than Peru — 341,784,857 against 34,576,665 people.

## Side by side

|  | Peru | United States |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Lima | Washington, D.C. |
| Area | 1,285,216 km² | 9,833,517 km² |
| Population | 34,576,665 (2025) | 341,784,857 (2025) |
| Density | 26.9 /km² | 34.8 /km² |
| Currency | Peruvian sol (PEN) | United States dollar (USD) |
| Official languages | Aymara, Quechua, Spanish | English |
| Time zones | UTC-05:00 | UTC-10:00, UTC-09:00, UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00 |
| Calling code | +51 | +1 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | South America | North America |
| ISO codes | PE / PER | US / USA |

## Population density

United States is 1.3 times more densely populated than Peru — 35 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

- Different currencies: the Peruvian sol and the United States dollar.
- United States spans 6 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
- Different continents — South America and North America.

## 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.

## United States

Third or fourth largest country in the world depending on how China's area is counted. It spans six standard time zones across the fifty states, from UTC-10 in Hawaii to UTC-5 on the east coast. Death Valley holds the highest reliably recorded air temperature on Earth, 56.7 °C in 1913, and is 86 m below sea level; Denali, 5,500 km away in Alaska, is 6,190 m.

> 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 Peru bigger than United States?

United States is larger — 9,833,517 km² against 1,285,216 km².

### Which has more people, Peru or United States?

United States, with 341,784,857 against 34,576,665.

### What is the time difference between Peru and United States?

Peru is UTC-05:00 and United States is UTC-10:00, UTC-09:00, UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, 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]