The
provinces of Peru, known in Spanish as
provincias, are the second-level administrative subdivisions of the country. They are divided into
districts . There are 196 provinces in
Peru, grouped into 25
regions except for the
Lima Province which does not belong to any region. This makes an average of 7 provinces per region. The region with the fewest provinces is
Callao (one) and the region with the most is
Ancash (twenty).