Flat Hal and Flat Stanley had a fun day in the port city of Callao. LOTS of freighters were loading and unloading, including one designed to transport cars. It is shaped a lot like a cruise ship, but doesn’t have windows, and lowered something that looked a lot like a castle’s drawbridge so cars could be driven on and off.
Lima, Capital of Peru, home of 1 in 3 Peruvians?
The population of Peru is a little over 34 million people.
Over 10 million of them live in Lima!
The population of the United States is over 347 million,
but less than 1 million people live in our Capital City of Washington D.C.
The population of Canada is roughly 40 million,
with around 1 million of them living in the Capital City of Ottawa.
There are lots of reasons why people live in a capital city, not just politics and government related activities. Why do you think nearly one third of the people in Peru live in and around their Capital?
