Paraguay Travel Guide

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Location
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Capital	Asunción
Language	Spanish (official), Guarani (official)
Internet TLD	.py
Calling Code	+595
Religion	Roman Catholic 90%, Mennonite, and other Protestant
Area	total: 406,752 km² water: 9,450 km² land: 397,300 km²
Population	5,884,491 (July 2002 est.)
Government	Constitutional republic
Currency	Guarani (PYG)
Electricity	220V/60Hz (European plug)
Time Zone	UTC-4

Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay is one of the two landlocked countries which lie entirely within the Western Hemisphere, the other being Bolivia, both in South America, republic (2005 est. pop. 6,348,000), 157,047 sq mi (406,752 sq km).

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Paraguay is enclosed by Bolivia on the north and west, Brazil on the east, and Argentina on the south and west; Bolivia and Paraguay are the two landlocked nations of the continent. Asunción is the capital and the largest city. Population: 6,670,000. The population is largely mestizo, of mixed Spanish and Guaraní descent. About half of Paraguay's workers are engaged in agriculture and forestry; a much smaller percentage are employed in industry and mining, and many work outside the formal economy. Roman Catholicism is the established religion; most of the small number of Protestants are Mennonites. The eastern part of the country, between the Paraguay and Paraná rivers, where most of the population lives, is a lowland, rising in the east and north to a plateau region. The Paraguay River also forms part of the border with Argentina, from its confluence with the Paraná north to the Pilcomayo River. The section west of the Paraguay River is a dry plain, part of the Chaco.