Departments of Paraguay explained

Capital District and Departments of Paraguay Spanish; Castilian: Distrito Capital y Departamentos de Paraguay
Category:	Unitary State
Territory:	Paraguay
Current Number:	17 Departments 1 Capital District
Population Range:	Departments only: 17,608(Alto Paraguay) – 1,866,562(Central)
Area Range:	Departments only: 952order=flipNaNorder=flip (Central) – 35394order=flipNaNorder=flip (Boquerón)
Government:	Department government, National government
Subdivision:	Districts

Paraguay consists of 17 departments (Spanish; Castilian: 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).

	Department	Capital	Population (2022 census)	Area (km^2)	Districts	Population density (pop./km^2)
ASU	Distrito Capital	Asunción	477,346	117	6	4,080
1	Concepción	Concepción	204,536	18,051	11	11.33
2	San Pedro	San Pedro	341,895	20,002	20	17.09
3	Cordillera	Caacupé	271,475	4,948	20	54.87
4	Guairá	Villarrica	180,121	3,846	18	46.83
5	Caaguazú	Coronel Oviedo	430,142	11,474	23	37.49
6	Caazapá	Caazapá	140,060	9,496	11	14.75
7		Encarnación	436,966	16,525	30	26.44
8	Misiones	San Juan Bautista	114,542	9,556	10	11.99
9	Paraguarí	Paraguarí	199,430	8,705	17	22.91
10	Alto Paraná	Ciudad del Este	784,839	14,895	22	52.69
11	Central	Areguá	1,866,562	2,465	19	757.2
12	Ñeembucú	Pilar	85,749	12,147	16	7.06
13	Amambay	Pedro Juan Caballero	173,770	12,933	5	13.44
14		Salto del Guairá	189,128	14,667	13	12.89
15		Villa Hayes	126,880	72,907	9	1.74
16	Alto Paraguay	Fuerte Olimpo	17,608	82,349	5	0.21
17	Boquerón	Filadelfia	68,595	91,669	6	0.74
-	Paraguay	Asunción	6,109,644	406,752	261	15.02

See also

• Ranked list of Paraguayan departments
• List of regions of Paraguay by Human Development Index