Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Asunción
- Region
- Americas, South America
- Population
- 7,013,078 (2025)
- Area
- 406,750 km²
- Currency
- Paraguayan guaraní (PYG)
- Languages
- Spanish, Guarani
- Calling code
- +595
- Internet domain
- .py
- ISO codes
- PY, PRY, 600
- Time zone
- UTC-3:00
- United Nations
- Member state
- Postal code pattern
- ###### (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
Paraguay covers about 406,750 square kilometres. By area it ranks 61st among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Iraq and a little larger than Zimbabwe. It shares a land border with 3 neighbours: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil. It is landlocked, which means it has no sea coast. Its centre lies at about 23° south, 58° west, in the southern hemisphere.
Neighbours
People
About 7.01 million people live in Paraguay (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 108th most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure. On average there are 17 people to each square kilometre. About 70 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 74 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: Spanish, Guarani. A person from Paraguay is called Paraguayan.
Money and economy
The currency is the Paraguayan guaraní (code PYG, symbol ₲). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 49.3 billion (2025), which is about US$ 7,027 for each person (2025).
Time
Paraguay uses one time zone, UTC-3:00 (America/Asuncion). Clocks stay the same all year: there is no daylight saving time.
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Offsets are for January 2026. See Time Zones for a converter.
Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Asunción | 1,482,200 |
| Ciudad del Este | 301,815 |
| San Lorenzo | 227,876 |
| Capiatá | 198,553 |
| Lambaré | 126,377 |
| Fernando de la Mora | 120,167 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in South America
Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Falkland Islands, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.