[1] The urban area of Lima is generally considered to be formed by thirty of these districts.
The remaining thirteen districts consist of mostly rural and sparsely populated desert and mountainous areas.
Area and population information on the following list has been retrieved from official data by the Peruvian National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (Spanish: Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática, INEI).
Population density is given to one decimal place in persons per square kilometer.
UBIGEO numbers are codes used by INEI to identify national administrative subdivisions.