South America
Paraguay

Misiones Department

Misiones is a department located in the southern region of . Its capital is . The eighth of Paraguay's 17 departments, it was created in 1906, then known as the San Ignacio Department, and was not given its present name until 1945.
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  • Type: State with 104,000 residents
  • Description: department of Paraguay
  • Also known as: “Departamento de las Misiones”, “Departamento de San Ignacio”, “Las Misiones”, “Misiones”, “Octavo Departamento”, “PY-8”, and “San Ignacio”
  • Neighbors:

Misiones Department

Latitude
-27° or 27° south
Longitude
-57° or 57° west
Population
104,000
Elevation
95 metres (312 feet)
Open location code
58552222+22
Open­Street­Map ID
node 313928980
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
3437727
Wiki­data ID
Q591194
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Misiones Department” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ميسيونيس”
  • Basque: “Misionesko departamendua”
  • Bengali: “মিশনেস”
  • Breton: “Departamant Misiones”
  • Bulgarian: “Мисионес”
  • Catalan: “departament de Misiones”
  • Catalan: “Departament de Misiones”
  • Cebuano: “Departamento de Misiones”
  • Chavacano: “Misiones”
  • Chinese: “米西奥内斯省”
  • Chinese: “米西奧內斯省”
  • Croatian: “Misiones”
  • Danish: “Misiones”
  • Dutch: “Misiones”
  • Esperanto: “Departamento de Misiones”
  • Esperanto: “Departemento Misiones”
  • Finnish: “Misiones”
  • Finnish: “Misionesin maakunta”
  • French: “Misiones”
  • Galician: “Departamento de Misiones”
  • Georgian: “მისიონესის დეპარტამენტი”
  • German: “Departamento Misiones”
  • German: “Misiones”
  • Greek: “Μισιόνες”
  • Guarani: “Misiones”
  • Guarani: “Tetãvore Misiónes”
  • Gujarati: “મિસીનસ”
  • Hindi: “मिशिनेस”
  • Hungarian: “Misiones megye”
  • Indonesian: “Departemen Misiones”
  • Italian: “Dipartimento di Misiones”
  • Italian: “Misiones”
  • Japanese: “ミシオネス県”
  • Kannada: “ಮಿಷೆನ್ಸ್”
  • Korean: “미시오네스주”
  • Ladino: “Misiones”
  • Latvian: “Misjonesa”
  • Latvian: “Misjonesas departaments”
  • Lithuanian: “Misioneso departamentas”
  • Lithuanian: “Misjoneso departamentas”
  • Macedonian: “Мисионес”
  • Malay: “Jabatan Misiones”
  • Malay: “Misiones”
  • Marathi: “मिसिवन्स”
  • Mingrelian: “მისიონესიშ დეპარტამენტი”
  • Northern Frisian: “Misiones (Department uun Paraguay)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Misiones”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Misiones”
  • Persian: “ناحیه میسیونس”
  • Polish: “Misiones”
  • Portuguese: “Departamento de Misiones”
  • Portuguese: “Misiones”
  • Quechua: “Misiones suyu”
  • Russian: “Мисьонес”
  • Scots: “Misiones Depairtment”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Misiones (departman)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Misiones”
  • Sinhala: “මිෂන්ස් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, පැරගුවේ”
  • Sinhala: “මිසියොන්ස්”
  • Slovak: “Misiones”
  • Spanish: “Departamento de Misiones”
  • Spanish: “Departamento Misiones”
  • Spanish: “Misiones”
  • Spanish: “PY-8”
  • Swedish: “Misiones”
  • Tamil: “மிஸின்ஸ்”
  • Telugu: “మిసియోన్స్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดมิซิโอเนส”
  • Turkish: “Misiones”
  • Ukrainian: “Місьйонес”
  • Urdu: “میسیونیس ڈیپارٹمنٹ”
  • Urdu: “میسیونیس محکمہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Misiones”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Misiones”
  • Wu Chinese: “米西奥内斯省 (巴拉圭)”
  • Wu Chinese: “米西奥内斯省（巴拉圭）”
  • Wu Chinese: “米西奥内斯省”
  • “Departamento de Misiones”
  • “Misiones”
  • “Misiones Department”
  • “PY-8”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Misiones Department”. Photo: Greg Schechter, CC BY 2.0.