South America

Paraguay

Paraguay is a country of big rivers, green landscapes, folklore and a rich indigenous culture in central . It's relatively small compared to its neighbors, with an area of 406,752 km2: about the same size as Germany.
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Top destinations include Asunción and Ciudad del Este.

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is the capital and largest city of Paraguay. Unlike other capitals of such as , or , is off the beaten path as it lacks well known tourist attractions.

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is the most eastern and second largest city of Paraguay at the border with . Its main attraction for visitors is shopping. This place is one of the access points to a great natural wonder of the world, the , a few kilometers away in the neighboring cities of and Puerto Iguazu.

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is the most southern city of Paraguay and often called The pearl of the South. The Rio Paraná separates it and the Argentine town of .

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is a region of Paraguay.

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The is part of the Brazilian Highlands which covers parts of southern , northern and eastern Paraguay. The plateau reaches a height of 1,300 m and stands on a layer of basalt with a thickness of 2,000 m.

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The Paraguayan Chaco is a region covering the western half of Paraguay. It is the Paraguayan portion of the Chaco, a South American region that includes parts of , Paraguay, , and .

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is a region of Paraguay.

Paraguay

Latitude of center
-23.584° or 23° 35′ 2″ south
Longitude of center
-58.0518° or 58° 3′ 7″ west
Population
7,010,000
Area
406,750 km² (157,047 miles²)
Elevation
83 metres (272 feet)
Capital
Asuncion
Currency
Guarani (PYG)
Phone code
.py
Internet domain
595
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1644764586
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
3437598
Wiki­data ID
Q733
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Paraguay” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Paraguay”
  • Adyghe: “Парагуай”
  • Afrikaans: “Paraguay”
  • Akan: “Paraguay”
  • Albanian: “Paraguai”
  • Albanian: “Paraguaji”
  • Amharic: “ፓራጓይ”
  • Amis: “Paraguay”
  • Angika: “पैराग्वे”
  • Arabic: “باراجواي”
  • Arabic: “باراغواي”
  • Aragonese: “Paraguai”
  • Armenian: “Պարագվայ”
  • Arpitan: “Paragoayi”
  • Assamese: “পাৰাগুৱে”
  • Asturian: “Paraguái”
  • Asturian: “Paraguay”
  • Atayal: “Paraguay”
  • Awadhi: “पैराग्वे”
  • Aymara: “Parawayi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Paraqvay”
  • Balinese: “Paraguay”
  • Bambara: “Paraguwayi”
  • Bashkir: “Парагвай”
  • Basque: “Paraguai”
  • Basque: “Paraguay”
  • Batak Toba: “Paraguay”
  • Bavarian: “Paraguay”
  • Belarusian: “Парагвай”
  • Bengali: “পারাগুয়ে”
  • Bengali: “প্যারাগুয়ে”
  • Bengali: “প্যারাগোয়ে”
  • Betawi: “Paragué”
  • Bhojpuri: “पराग्वे”
  • Bishnupriya: “পারাগুয়ে”
  • Bislama: “Paraguay”
  • Bislama: “Paragwae”
  • Bosnian: “Paragvaj”
  • Breton: “Paraguay”
  • Bulgarian: “Парагвай”
  • Burmese: “ပါရာဂွေး”
  • Burmese: “ပါရာဂွေးနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Paraguai”
  • Cebuano: “Paraguay”
  • Central Bikol: “Paraguay”
  • Central Kanuri: “Paraguay”
  • Central Kurdish: “پاراگوای”
  • Chavacano: “Paraguay”
  • Chechen: “Парагвай”
  • Cheyenne: “Paraguay”
  • Chinese: “Paraguay”
  • Chinese: “巴拉圭”
  • Chuvash: “Парагвай”
  • Cornish: “Paragway”
  • Corsican: “Paraguai”
  • Corsican: “Paraguay”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Paragvay”
  • Croatian: “Paragvaj”
  • Czech: “Paraguay”
  • Czech: “Paraguayská republika”
  • Dagbani: “Paraguay”
  • Danish: “Paraguay”
  • Dhivehi: “ޕެރަގުއޭ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Paraguay”
  • Dotyali: “पाराग्वे”
  • Dutch: “Paraguay”
  • Dutch: “Republiek Paraguay”
  • Dzongkha: “Paraguay”
  • Dzongkha: “པ་ར་གུ་ཝའི”
  • Eastern Mari: “Парагвай”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “باراجواى”
  • Esperanto: “Paragvajo”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Paragvajo”
  • Estonian: “Paraguay Vabariik”
  • Estonian: “Paraguay”
  • Ewe: “Paragua nutome”
  • Ewe: “Paraguay”
  • Extremaduran: “Paraguai”
  • Faroese: “Paraguai”
  • Faroese: “Paraguei”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Paraguay”
  • Fijian: “Paraguay”
  • Finnish: “Paraguay”
  • Finnish: “Paraguayn tasavalta”
  • French: “Cœur de l’Amérique du Sud”
  • French: “la République du Paraguay”
  • French: “Paraguay”
  • French: “République du Paraguay”
  • Fulah: “Paraguwaay”
  • Gagauz: “Paragvay”
  • Galician: “O Paraguai”
  • Galician: “Paraguai”
  • Ganda: “Paragwayi”
  • Georgian: “პარაგვაი”
  • German: “Paraguay”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Paraguay”
  • Gilaki: “پاراگۊئه”
  • Goan Konkani: “Paraguay”
  • Goan Konkani: “पराग्वे”
  • Gothic: “𐍆𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌰𐌷𐍅𐌰”
  • Greek: “Παραγουάη”
  • Guarani: “Paraguái”
  • Guarani: “Tetã Paraguái”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Paragwé”
  • Gujarati: “પેરાગ્વે”
  • Haitian: “Paragwe”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Paraguay”
  • Hausa: “Faragwai”
  • Hausa: “Paraguay”
  • Hawaiian: “Palakuai”
  • Hebrew: “פארגוואי”
  • Hebrew: “פרגואי”
  • Hebrew: “פרגוואי”
  • Hindi: “पारागुए”
  • Hindi: “पॅराग्वे”
  • Hindi: “पैराग्वे”
  • Hungarian: “Paraguay”
  • Hungarian: “Paraguayi Köztársaság”
  • Icelandic: “Paragvæ”
  • Ido: “Paraguay”
  • Igbo: “Paraguay”
  • Iloko: “Paraguay”
  • Inari Sami: “Paraguay täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Paraguay”
  • Indonesian: “Paraguay”
  • Interlingua: “Paraguay”
  • Interlingue: “Paraguay”
  • Irish: “Paragua”
  • Italian: “Paraguay”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Paragwai”
  • Japanese: “パラグアイ”
  • Japanese: “パラグアイ共和国”
  • Javanese: “Paraguay”
  • Kabiyè: “Paraguwee”
  • Kabuverdianu: “Paraguai”
  • Kabyle: “Paraguay”
  • Kabyle: “Paragway”
  • Kalaallisut: “Paraguay”
  • Kalmyk: “Парагаймудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಪರಾಗ್ವೇ”
  • Kannada: “ಪೆರಗ್ವೆ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Paragvay”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Парагвай”
  • Kashmiri: “پَراگُے”
  • Kashubian: “Paragwaj”
  • Kazakh: “Парагвай”
  • Khmer: “ប៉ារ៉ាហ្គាយ”
  • Kikuyu: “Paragwai”
  • Kinaray-A: “Paragway”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Paragwe”
  • Kirghiz: “Парагвай”
  • Kongo: “Paragway”
  • Korean: “파라과이”
  • Kotava: “Paraguaya”
  • Kurdish: “Paraguay”
  • Kurdish: “Paragûay”
  • Ladin: “Paraguay”
  • Ladino: “Paraguay”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດປຣາກວາຍ”
  • Lao: “ພາຣາກວຍ”
  • Latgalian: “Paragvajs”
  • Latin: “Paraquaria”
  • Latvian: “Paragvaja”
  • Lezghian: “Парагвай”
  • Ligurian: “Paraguay”
  • Limburgan: “Paraguay”
  • Lingala: “Palagway”
  • Lingala: “Palagwei”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Paraguai”
  • Literary Chinese: “巴拉圭”
  • Lithuanian: “Paragvajus”
  • Livvi: “Paragvai”
  • Lojban: “paraguais”
  • Lombard: “Paraguay”
  • Low German: “Paraguay”
  • Low German: “Republik Paraguay”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Paraguay”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Palagwei”
  • Luxembourgish: “Paraguay”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Paraguay”
  • Macedonian: “Парагвај”
  • Madurese: “Paraguay”
  • Maithili: “पाराग्वे”
  • Malagasy: “Paragoay”
  • Malay: “Paraguay”
  • Malayalam: “പരഗ്വെ”
  • Malayalam: “പരാഗ്വേ”
  • Maltese: “il-Paragwaj”
  • Maltese: “Paragwaj”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika tal-Paragwaj”
  • Manipuri: “ꯄꯔꯒ꯭ꯋꯥꯢ”
  • Manipuri: “ꯄꯥꯔꯥꯒ꯭ꯋꯦ”
  • Manipuri: “ꯄꯦꯔꯥꯒ꯭ꯋꯦ”
  • Manx: “y Pharaguay”
  • Manx: “Yn Pharaguay”
  • Maori: “Parakai”
  • Marathi: “पराग्वे”
  • Marathi: “पेराग्वे”
  • Mazanderani: “پاراگوئه”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Paraguay”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Paraguay”
  • Minangkabau: “Paraguay”
  • Mingrelian: “პარაგვაი”
  • Mirandese: “Paraguai”
  • Moksha: “Парагвай”
  • Mongolian: “Парагвай”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “پاراڭواي”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “پاراݣواي”
  • Nauru: “Paraguay”
  • Neapolitan: “Paraguay”
  • Nepali: “पाराग्वे”
  • Nepali: “प्याराग्वे”
  • Newari: “पाराग्वे”
  • North Ndebele: “Paraguay”
  • Northern Frisian: “Paraguay”
  • Northern Luri: “پاراگوئه”
  • Northern Sami: “Paraguay dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Paraguay”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Paraguay”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken Paraguay”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Paraguay”
  • Norwegian: “Paraguay”
  • Novial: “Paraguay”
  • Nyanja: “Paraguay”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Paraguai”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Paracwaria”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Paracwarland”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Paraquaria”
  • Oriya: “ପାରାଗୁଏ”
  • Oromo: “Paraaguwaay”
  • Ossetian: “Парагвай”
  • Pali: “पेरेग्वाय”
  • Pampanga: “Paraguái”
  • Pampanga: “Paraguay”
  • Pangasinan: “Paraguay”
  • Panjabi: “ਪੈਰਾਗਵੇ”
  • Panjabi: “ਪੈਰਾਗੁਏ”
  • Papiamento: “Paraguay”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Paraguay”
  • Persian: “پاراگوئه”
  • Persian: “پاراگوای”
  • Persian: “پاراگویه”
  • Picard: “Paraguay”
  • Piemontese: “Paraguay”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Paraguay”
  • Polish: “Paragwaj”
  • Portuguese: “Paraguai”
  • Portuguese: “Paraguay”
  • Pushto: “پاراګوای”
  • Pushto: “پاراګوی”
  • Quechua: “Paraguay”
  • Quechua: “Paraway”
  • Quechua: “Parawayi”
  • Rakhine: “ပါရာဂွေး သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ”
  • Romanian: “Paraguay”
  • Romansh: “Paraguai”
  • Romansh: “Paraguay”
  • Rundi: “Paragwe”
  • Russia Buriat: “Парагвай”
  • Russian: “Парагвай”
  • Russian: “Республика Парагвай”
  • Rusyn: “Параґвай”
  • Sakizaya: “Paraguay”
  • Samoan: “Parakuei”
  • Samogitian: “Paragvajos”
  • Sango: “Paraguëe”
  • Sanskrit: “पेरेग्वाय”
  • Santali: “ᱯᱮᱨᱟᱜᱩᱣᱟᱭ”
  • Sardinian: “Paraguay”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Paraguay”
  • Scots: “Paraguay”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Paraguaidh”
  • Serbian: “Paragvaj”
  • Serbian: “Парагвај”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Paragvaj”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းပႃႇရႃႇၵူၺ်း”
  • Shona: “Paraguay”
  • Sicilian: “Paraguai”
  • Silesian: “Paragwaj”
  • Sindhi: “پيراگوءِ”
  • Sindhi: “پيراگوئي”
  • Sinhala: “පැරගුවේ”
  • Skolt Sami: “Paraguay tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Paraguay”
  • Slovak: “Paraguaj”
  • Slovak: “Paraguajská republika”
  • Slovenian: “Paragvaj”
  • Somali: “Baraguaay”
  • Somali: “Paraguay”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پاراقوئه”
  • Spanish: “Paraguay”
  • Spanish: “Republica del Paraguay”
  • Spanish: “República del Paraguay”
  • Sundanese: “Paraguay”
  • Swahili: “Paraguay”
  • Swahili: “Paragwai”
  • Swedish: “Paraguay”
  • Swedish: “Republiken Paraguay”
  • Swiss German: “Paraguay”
  • Sylheti: “ꠙꠣꠞꠣꠉꠥꠄ”
  • Tagalog: “Paraguay”
  • Tajik: “Парагвай”
  • Talysh: “Paragvaj”
  • Talysh: “Paraqvay”
  • Tamil: “பரகுவை”
  • Tamil: “பராகுவே”
  • Taroko: “Paraguay”
  • Tatar: “Парагвай”
  • Telugu: “పరాగ్వే”
  • Tetum: “Paraguai”
  • Thai: “ประเทศปารากวัย”
  • Thai: “ปารากวัย”
  • Thai: “สาธารณรัฐปารากวัย”
  • Tibetan: “པ་ར་གུ་ཡེ།”
  • Tibetan: “པཱ་ར་གེ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ሪፓብሊክ ፓራጓይ”
  • Tigrinya: “ፓራጓይ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Paraguwai”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Palakuai”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Paraguay”
  • Tumbuka: “Paraguay”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “پاراڨواي”
  • Turkish: “Paraguay”
  • Turkmen: “Paragwaý”
  • Udmurt: “Парагвай”
  • Uighur: “پاراگۋاي”
  • Ukrainian: “Парагвай”
  • Ukrainian: “Параґвай”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Paraguay”
  • Urdu: “پیراگوئے”
  • Uzbek: “Paragvay”
  • Venetian: “Paraguai”
  • Venetian: “Paraguay”
  • Veps: “Paragvai”
  • Vietnamese: “Pa-ra-goay (Paraguay)”
  • Vietnamese: “Pa-ra-goay”
  • Vietnamese: “Paraguay”
  • Vlaams: “Paraguay”
  • Vlax Romani: “Paraguay”
  • Volapük: “Paragvän”
  • Võro: “Paraguay”
  • Walloon: “Paragway”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Paraguay”
  • Welsh: “Gweriniaeth Paragwâi”
  • Welsh: “Paraguay”
  • Welsh: “Paragwái”
  • Western Armenian: “Փարակուէյ”
  • Western Frisian: “Paraguay”
  • Western Mari: “Парагвай”
  • Western Panjabi: “پیراگوئے”
  • Wolof: “Paraguwaay”
  • Wolof: “Paraguwe”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴拉圭”
  • Xhosa: “Paraguay”
  • Yakut: “Парагуай”
  • Yiddish: “פאראגוויי”
  • Yiddish: “פּאַראַגווײַ”
  • Yoruba: “Paragúáì”
  • Yoruba: “Paraguye”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴拉圭”
  • Zeeuws: “Paraguay”
  • Zhuang: “Bahlahgveih”
  • Zulu: “i-Paraguay”
  • “ma Palakawi”
  • “ma Palawa”
  • “PAR”
  • “Paraguay”
  • “Paragvajos”
  • “pry”
  • “PRY”
  • “py”
  • “PY”
  • “पराग्वे”

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