Northern Paraneña
Concepción Department
Concepcion

Concepción

Concepción is an attractive city on the river Paraguay 460 km north of in northern . With some 83,000 inhabitants it is known as La Perla del Norte for its beautiful setting, elegant homes and well preserved public buildings.
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  • Type: City with 85,900 residents
  • Description: city and department capital of Concepcion, Paraguay
  • Also known as: “Concepcion”, “Concepción, Paraguay”, and “Villa Concepción”
Photo: Cmasi, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Concepción

Latitude
-23.4068° or 23° 24′ 25″ south
Longitude
-57.4428° or 57° 26′ 34″ west
Population
85,900
Elevation
78 metres (256 feet)
IATA airport code
CIO
United Nations Location Code
PY CNP
Open location code
5884HHV4+7V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 6489770653
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3438834
Wiki­data ID
Q840962
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Concepción” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كونسيبسيون”
  • Armenian: “Կոնսեպսիոն”
  • Asturian: “Concepción”
  • Basque: “Concepción”
  • Belarusian: “Кансепсьён (горад, Парагвай)”
  • Belarusian: “Кансепсьён”
  • Bengali: “কন্সেপ্সন”
  • Catalan: “Concepción”
  • Cebuano: “Concepción (kapital sa departamento sa Paraguay)”
  • Cebuano: “Concepción”
  • Chavacano: “Concepción, Paraguay”
  • Chinese: “康塞普西翁”
  • Danish: “Concepción”
  • Dutch: “Concepción”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كونسيبسيون”
  • Esperanto: “Concepción”
  • Finnish: “Concepción”
  • French: “Concepcion”
  • French: “Concepción”
  • Galician: “Concepción, Paraguai”
  • Galician: “Concepción”
  • Georgian: “კონსეფსიონი”
  • German: “Concepción”
  • Greek: “Κονσεπσιόν”
  • Guarani: “Concepción”
  • Guarani: “Konsepsiõ”
  • Gujarati: “કોન્સેપ્સિઓન”
  • Hindi: “कॉनसेपसियोन”
  • Hungarian: “Concepción”
  • Indonesian: “Concepción”
  • Italian: “Concepción”
  • Japanese: “コンセプシオン”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾನ್ಸೆಪ್ಸಿನ್”
  • Korean: “콘셉시온”
  • Latvian: “Konsepsjona”
  • Lithuanian: “Konsepsjonas”
  • Malay: “Concepcion”
  • Marathi: “कन्सेपिसियॉन”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Concepecion”
  • Persian: “کانسپسیون، پاراگوئه”
  • Persian: “کانسپسیون”
  • Persian: “کنسپسیون، پاراگوئه”
  • Polish: “Concepción”
  • Portuguese: “Conceição”
  • Portuguese: “Concepción”
  • Romanian: “Concepción, Paraguay”
  • Romanian: “Concepcion”
  • Romanian: “Concepción”
  • Russian: “Консепсьон”
  • Scots: “Concepción, Paraguay”
  • Scots: “Concepción”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Concepción, Paragvaj”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Concepción”
  • Silesian: “Concepción”
  • Sinhala: “කන්සෙප්ෂන්, පැරගුවේ”
  • Sinhala: “කන්සෙප්ෂන්”
  • Slovenian: “Concepción, Paraguay”
  • Spanish: “Concepcion”
  • Spanish: “Concepción”
  • Spanish: “Villa Real de la Concepcion”
  • Spanish: “Villa Real de la Concepción”
  • Swedish: “Concepción, Paraguay”
  • Swedish: “Concepcion”
  • Swedish: “Concepción”
  • Tamil: “கான்செப்ஸின்”
  • Telugu: “కాన్సెప్సియాన్”
  • Thai: “กอนเซปซิออน”
  • Turkish: “Concepcion”
  • Ukrainian: “Консепсьйон”
  • Urdu: “کونسیپسیون، پیراگوئے”
  • Vietnamese: “Concepción”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Concepción, Paraguay”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Concepción”
  • Wu Chinese: “康塞普西翁 (巴拉圭)”
  • Wu Chinese: “康塞普西翁（巴拉圭）”
  • “Concepción”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Concepción”. Photo: Cmasi, CC BY-SA 4.0.