Capital District and Departments of Paraguay Distrito Capital y Departamentos de Paraguay (Spanish) | |
---|---|
Category | Unitary State |
Location | Paraguay |
Number | 17 Departments 1 Capital District |
Populations | Departments only: 17,608(Alto Paraguay) – 1,866,562(Central) |
Areas | Departments only: 2,470 km2 (952 sq mi) (Central) – 91,670 km2 (35,394 sq mi) (Boquerón) |
Government |
|
Subdivisions |
Paraguay portal |
Paraguay consists of 17 departments (Spanish: departamentos; singular – departamento) and one capital district (distrito capital). The country is divided into two non-official regions: The "Occidental Region" or Chaco (Boquerón, Alto Paraguay and Presidente Hayes), and the "Oriental Region" or Parana (other departments and the capital district).
ISO 3166-2:PY | Department | Capital | Population (2022 census) | Area (km2) | Districts | Population density (pop./km2) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ASU | Asunción | 477,346 | 117 | 6 | 4377 | |
1 | Concepción | 204,536 | 18,051 | 11 | 9.941 | |
2 | San Pedro | 341,895 | 20,002 | 20 | 15.93 | |
3 | Caacupé | 271,475 | 4,948 | 20 | 47.26 | |
4 | Villarrica | 180,121 | 3,846 | 18 | 46.45 | |
5 | Coronel Oviedo | 430,142 | 11,474 | 23 | 37.94 | |
6 | Caazapá | 140,060 | 9,496 | 11 | 14.69 | |
7 | Encarnación | 436,966 | 16,525 | 30 | 27.45 | |
8 | San Juan Bautista | 114,542 | 9,556 | 10 | 10.65 | |
9 | Paraguarí | 199,430 | 8,705 | 17 | 25.49 | |
10 | Ciudad del Este | 784,839 | 14,895 | 22 | 37.51 | |
11 | Areguá | 1,866,562 | 2,465 | 19 | 552.9 | |
12 | Pilar | 85,749 | 12,147 | 16 | 6.285 | |
13 | Pedro Juan Caballero | 173,770 | 12,933 | 5 | 8.886 | |
14 | Salto del Guairá | 189,128 | 14,667 | 13 | 9.555 | |
15 | Villa Hayes | 126,880 | 72,907 | 9 | 1.131 | |
16 | Fuerte Olimpo | 17,608 | 82,349 | 5 | 0.1407 | |
17 | Filadelfia | 68,595 | 91,669 | 6 | 0.4484 | |
- | Paraguay | Asunción | 6,109,644 | 406,752 | 261 | 12.69 |
YouTube Encyclopedic
-
1/5Views:210 780689 41926 78335 740289 442
-
Paraguay Geography/Paraguay Country Departments
-
Geography Now! PARAGUAY
-
Top 10 Largest Cities or Towns of Paraguay
-
What's the Food Like in Paraguay?
-
Uruguay Geography/Uruguay Country Department
Transcription
See also
- Ranked list of Paraguayan departments
- List of regions of Paraguay by Human Development Index
- ISO 3166-2:PY
External links
- "Departments of Paraguay". Statoids.