Paraguay

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Codes and identifiers

ISO alpha-2
PY
ISO alpha-3
PRY
ISO numeric
600
FIPS 10-4
PA
GeoNames ID
3437598

Key facts

Capital
Asuncion
Area
406,750 km²
Population
6,956,071
Currency
Guarani (PYG)
Calling code
+595
Top-level domain
.py
Official languages
es-PY,gn

Continent

Name
South America
Code
SA
In this dataset
14 countries

South America in the country atlas

Location

Latitude
-23.33333
Longitude
-58
Min latitude
-27.58684214299994
Min longitude
-62.65035721899994
Max latitude
-19.28672861699995
Max longitude
-54.24528885899994

Boundary

Paraguay

The API call behind this page

Request

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  "https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/PY?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"

Response

{
  "data": {
    "area_sq_km": 406750,
    "capital": "Asuncion",
    "continent_code": "SA",
    "currency_code": "PYG",
    "iso3_code": "PRY",
    "iso_code": "PY",
    "name": "Paraguay",
    "population": 6956071
  }
}

Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.

Other endpoints for this country

  • /v1/countries/PY/regions
  • /v1/cities?country=PY
  • /v1/postal-codes?country=PY
  • /v1/timezones?country=PY
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Name in other languages

Arabic
باراغواي
Chinese
巴拉圭
English
Paraguay
French
Paraguay
German
Paraguay
Hindi
पॅराग्वे
Italian
Paraguay
Japanese
パラグアイ
Korean
파라과이
Portuguese
Paraguai
Russian
Парагвай
Spanish
Paraguay
Total language variants
139

The API returns any of them with ?lang=.

Time zones

IANA ID UTC offset DST offset
America/Asuncion UTC-03:00 UTC-03:00

Postal code format

Format
####
Pattern
^(\d{4})$

First-level administrative regions

  • Departamento Central
  • Departamento del Alto Paraná
  • Asunción
  • Departamento de Itapúa
  • Departamento de Caaguazú
  • Departamento de San Pedro
  • Departamento de la Cordillera
  • Departamento de Concepción
  • Departamento de Paraguarí
  • Departamento de Canindeyú
  • Departamento del Guairá
  • Departamento del Amambay
  • Departamento de Caazapá
  • Departamento de Presidente Hayes
  • Departamento de Misiones
  • Departamento de Ñeembucú
  • Departamento de Boquerón
  • Departamento de Alto Paraguay

18 of 18 shown, largest first

Largest cities

City Population
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
Limpio 96,143
Nemby 94,641
Pedro Juan Caballero 75,109
Encarnación 74,983

Coverage in this dataset

Cities
6,868
First-level regions
18
Postal codes
0
Name languages
139
Boundary polygon
Yes

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