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Asunción (English: / ɑː ˌ s uː n s i ˈ oʊ n, ˌ ɑː s uː n ˈ s j oʊ n /, [3] [4] [5] Spanish:) is the capital and the largest city of Paraguay. The city stands on the eastern bank of the Paraguay River, almost at the confluence of this river with the Pilcomayo River. The Paraguay River and the Bay of Asunción in the northwest ...
Capital cities of the departments are listed in bold text. All census totals come from the Department of Statistics, Surveys and Censuses (Paraguay) [1] Map of Paraguay An enlargeable map of the Republic of Paraguay Map of Paraguay indicating the origin of the founders of the different districts in the country by colour.
Salto del Guairá; San Alberto; San Bernardino; San Cosme y Damián; San Estanislao; San Ignacio; San José de los Arroyos; San Juan Bautista de Ñeembucú
Demographics of Paraguay, Data of Our World in Data, year 2022; Number of inhabitants in thousands. Paraguay population density (people per km 2) According to the 2022 revision of the World Population Prospects [14] [15] the total population was 6,703,799 in 2021, compared to only 1,473,000 in 1950. The proportion of children below the age of ...
Paraguay (/ ˈ p ær ə ɡ w aɪ /; Spanish pronunciation: [paɾaˈɣwaj] ⓘ), officially the Republic of Paraguay (Spanish: República del Paraguay; Guarani: Paraguái Tavakuairetã), is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest.
Greater Asunción (Spanish: Gran Asunción) is the metropolitan area of the capital city of Paraguay, Asunción. [1] It consists of twenty cities: Asunción itself, the capital, and the surrounding cities in Central Department. One in three Paraguayans live in this metropolitan area, which has more than 2.7 million inhabitants. [citation needed]
Spanish conquistadores arrived in 1524, and in 1537 established the city of Asunción, the first capital of the Governorate of the Río de la Plata. During the 17th century, Paraguay was the center of Jesuit missions, where the native Guaraní people were converted to Christianity and
Luque (Spanish pronunciation:) is a city in Central Department of Paraguay, part of the Gran Asunción metropolitan area. Both 1635 and 1750 have been recorded as dates of its founding. [1] It was temporarily the capital of Paraguay in 1868 during the Paraguayan War before relocation to San Estanislao.