South America
Paraguay
Republic of Paraguay
Core facts
- Capital
- Asunción
- Population
- 6,109,644
- Area
- 406,752 km^2
- Country code
- PRY
- Flag emoji
- 🇵🇾
- UN member
- Yes
- Independent
- Yes
- Population density
- 15.0 per km^2
- Calling code
- +595
Culture and society
- Languages
- Guaraní, Spanish
- Religions
- Christianity (76.0%), Unaffiliated (19.0%), Other religions (3.0%), Islam (100.0%), Judaism (100.0%)
- Native names
- Paraguái, Paraguay
- Demonyms (EN)
- Paraguayan / Paraguayan
- Start of week
- monday
- Driving side
- right
- Timezones
- UTC-04:00
- Alternative spellings
- PY, Republic of Paraguay, República del Paraguay, Tetã Paraguái
Geography and map
- Continents
- South America
- Coordinates
- -23.00, -58.00
- Landlocked
- Yes
- Borders
- ARG, BOL, BRA
- Border countries count
- 3
Economy and identity
- Currencies
- Paraguayan guaraní (₲)
- Top-level domain
- .py
- FIFA code
- PAR
- Capital coordinates
- -25.28, -57.57
- Postal code format
- ######
- Gini index
- 45.7 (2019)
- Coat of arms