One of only two landlocked countries in the Americas, and it produces almost all its electricity from one dam.
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Paraguay
Republic of Paraguay · Paraguái
South America
· South America
0Population
406.75Kkm² of land
$5.42KGDP / person
AsunciónCapital
- ISO codes
- PY · PRY
- Density
- 17 /km²
- Languages
- Guaraní, Spanish
- Currency
- Paraguayan guaraní (PYG)
- Dial code
- +595
- Internet domain
- .py
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Landlocked
- Map centre
- 21.6750° S, 60.1460° W
- Demonym
- Paraguayan
- UN region
- Americas · South America
- Economy
- Emerging region: G20
- Income group
- Lower middle income
- Total GDP
- $38.15B
- Sovereignty
- Independent · UN member
- Borders
- 3
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By the numbers
How Paraguay stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
105th
of 242 · 0.09% of world population
Land area
61st
of 242 · 0.27% of world land
GDP per person
141st
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
198th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Paraguay
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 7,044,636 people, the 105th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 1,090 of everyone alive.
Covers 406,752 km², making it the 61st largest country here - about 9.9 times the size of Switzerland.
Population density is about 17 people per km².
The capital is Asunción, at 25.29° S, 57.64° W, with a metropolitan population of about 1,870,000.
Shares land borders with 3 countries: Argentina, Bolivia and Brazil.
Landlocked: every route to the sea crosses at least one border.
Keeps a single time zone, America/Asuncion.
The currency is the Paraguayan guaraní (PYG, symbol ₲).
Has 2 official languages: Guaraní and Spanish.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
America/Asuncion
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UTC−03:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
★ Asunción
Asunción
25.2945° S, 57.6435° W
1.87M
2
Ciudad del Este
Alto Paran
25.5167° S, 54.6161° W
320.87K
Land neighbours
3 countries share a border with Paraguay.