Paraguay

Facts

What the numbers say about Paraguay

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 42.5× the size of Paraguay.
• Paraguay ranks 60th of 239 by area but only 107th of 237 by population: it holds fewer people than its size suggests.
• At 17 people per km², Paraguay is the 158th most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• Paraguay lies at 23°S, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.2×.
• Laid out flat, Paraguay's main territory stretches about 924 km north to south and 859 km east to west.
• Wikidata's official figure of 407,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 400,000 km², to within 2%.

How Paraguay measures up

Paraguay holds 2.3% of the land area and 1.5% of the people of the 13 countries listed for South America.

Where Paraguay sits

• Paraguay's centre lies at 23.2°S, 58.4°W, in the southern and western hemispheres, about 2,580 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 28°S to 19°S, about 920 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Paraguay had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Paraguay would have 500.9 million people. It has 6.8 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Paraguay would have 1.5 million people. It has 6.8 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 28.9 million.

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