Map of Paraguay

Paraguay is located in South America. Its territory lies in the southern and western hemispheres, centred near 23.0° S, 58.0° W. Paraguay is landlocked, enclosed on every side by its 3 neighbours — Argentina, Bolivia and Brazil — with no coastline of its own. Within South America, a continent of 12 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, Paraguay is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Landlocked Paraguay is surrounded by the following 3 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Paraguay covers about 406,752 km² (157,048 sq mi). That makes it the 59th-largest country in the world by area and the 8th-largest in South America, larger by area than 4 of the continent’s 12 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 6,109,644, the 113th-largest in the world and the 9th-largest in South America, accounting for about 1.4% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Paraguay has an average population density of about 15 people per km². Among the 12 countries of South America it stands 9th by population and 8th by area.

The seat of government is Asunción, and the official currency is the Paraguayan guaraní (PYG, ₲), and the main official languages are Guaraní and Spanish. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC-04:00.

Paraguay carries the ISO country codes PY and PRY, dials on the international calling code +595 and uses the .py internet domain.

Paraguay shares its land borders with 3 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Brazil (capital Brasília, about 213,421,037 people), Argentina (capital Buenos Aires, about 46,735,004 people) and Bolivia (capital Sucre, about 11,365,333 people).

By area, Paraguay is larger than 0 of these neighbours and smaller than 3 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 23.0° S, 58.0° W and opens at zoom level 5, framing Paraguay within South America. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Asunción. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Paraguay lies about 2,553 km from the equator, in the southern and western hemispheres of the globe. As a landlocked country, every direction from its borders leads onto neighbouring land rather than the open sea.

Paraguay keeps a single standard time zone, UTC-04:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit -04:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Paraguayan guaraní (PYG, ₲).

The official languages are Guaraní and Spanish, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +595 and websites commonly use the .py internet domain.

In short, Paraguay is a landlocked country in South America, sharing land borders with 3 countries. Its capital is Asunción. Paraguay has a population of about 6,109,644 and covers around 406,752 km² (157,048 sq mi), ranking it 113th in the world by population and 59th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Paraguay.

The flag of Paraguay features three equal horizontal bands of red, white and blue, with an emblem centered in the white band. On the obverse side of the flag depicted, this emblem is the national coat of arms.

The flag of Paraguay is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.