Country · PY
Paraguay in other languages: Paraguái, Asunción, flag and anthem
Paraguay is Paraguay in Spanish and Paraguái in Guarani, the two official languages; the official name is República del Paraguay, Tetã Paraguáipe in Guarani, and the ISO 3166-1 codes are PY, PRY and 600. The country is given here in 170 languages and Asunción in 63, followed by the 17 departments and the national anthem.
Official languagesSpanish, Guarani
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ISO 3166-1alpha-2 · alpha-3 · numeric
- alpha-2
- PY
- alpha-3
- PRY
- numeric
- 600
Paraguay
Spanish · Latin
República del Paraguay
Paraguái
Guarani · Latin
Tetã Paraguáipe
- English
- ParaguayRepublic of Paraguay
- Capital
- AsunciónParaguayAsunción
ISO 3166-1, checked 28 October 2026
Paraguay (Paraguái) in other languages: list of exonyms
| Languages | ISO 639-3 | Name | Romanised |
|---|---|---|---|
| English, Afrikaans, Asturian, Breton, Czech, Welsh, Danish, Lower Sorbian, Estonian, Finnish, Kven, French, West Frisian, Hausa, Upper Sorbian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Italian, Javanese, Jersey Norman French, Ladin, Dutch, Norwegian, Novial, Romanian, Northern Sami, Spanish, Saterland Frisian, Swedish, Võro, Zazaki, German, Luxembourgish, Low German | eng / afr / ast / bre / ces / cym / dan / dsb / est / fin / fkv / fra / fry / hau / hsb / hun / ina / ind / ita / jav / jnf / lld / nld / nor / nov / ron / sme / spa / stq / swe / vor / zza / deu / ltz / nds | Paraguay | same as written |
| Aragonese, Catalan, Basque, Galician, Occitan, Portuguese, Romansh, Sicilian, Albanian, Sardinian, Tetum | arg / cat / eus / glg / oci / por / roh / scn / sqi / srd / tet | Paraguai | same as written |
| Crimean Tatar, Gagauz, Karakalpak | crh / gag / kaa | Paragvay / Парагвай | Paragvay |
| Haitian Creole, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi | hat / kin / run | Paragwe | same as written |
| Maltese, Polish, Silesian | mlt / pol / szl | Paragwaj | same as written |
| Aymara, Quechua | aym / que | Parawayi | same as written |
| Cornish, Walloon | cor / wln | Paragway | same as written |
| Croatian, Slovenian | hrv / slv | Paragvaj | same as written |
| Igbo, Swahili, Plautdietsch | ibo / swa / pdt | Paragwai | same as written |
| Azerbaijani | aze | Paraqvay / Парагвај | Paraqvay |
| Bambara | bam | Paraguwɛ | same as written |
| Bosnian | bos | Paragvaj / Парагвај / پاراغواي | Paragvaj |
| Esperanto | epo | Paragvajo | same as written |
| Faroese | fao | Paraguei | same as written |
| Franco-Provençal | frp | Paragoayi | same as written |
| Friulian | fur | Paravuai | same as written |
| Scottish Gaelic | gla | Paraguaidh | same as written |
| Irish | gle | Paragua | same as written |
| Manx | glv | Yn Pharaguay | same as written |
| Guarani | grn | Paraguái | same as written |
| Icelandic | isl | Paragvæ | same as written |
| Kurmanji Kurdish | kur | Paragway, Paragûay | same as written |
| Latin | lat | Paraguaia, Paraquaia, Paraquaria, Paraguajum | same as written |
| Latvian | lav | Paragvaja | same as written |
| Lingala | lin | Palagway | same as written |
| Lithuanian | lit | Paragvajus | same as written |
| Latgalian | ltg | Paragvajs | same as written |
| Malagasy | mlg | Paragoay | same as written |
| Moldovan | mol | Paraguay / Парагуай | Paraguay |
| Malay | msa | Paraguay / ڤاراݢواي | Paraguay |
| Nahuatl | nah | Parahuay | same as written |
| Norman French | nrm | Paragùay | same as written |
| Kalderash Romani | rmy | Paraguay / पारागुआय | Paraguay |
| Aromanian | rup | Paragvai | same as written |
| Slovak | slk | Paraguaj | same as written |
| Slovio | slo | Paraguai / Парагуаи | Paraguai |
| Samogitian | smg | Paragvajos | same as written |
| Samoan | smo | Parakuei | same as written |
| Tagalog | tgl | Paragway, Paraguay | same as written |
| Turkmen | tuk | Paragwaý / Парагвай | Paragwaý |
| Turkish | tur | Paraguay, Paraguvay | same as written |
| Uzbek | uzb | Paragvay / Парагвай / پەرەگۋەي | Paragvay |
| Vietnamese | vie | Pa-ra-goay | same as written |
| Volapük | vol | Paragvän | same as written |
| Wolof | wol | Paraguwaay | same as written |
| Yucatec Maya | yua | Paraway | same as written |
| Abaza, Altai, Bulgarian, Chuvash, Khakas, Komi, Karachay-Balkar, Kumyk, Lezgi, Meadow Mari, Mongolian, Ossetian, Russian, Tuvan, Udmurt, Kalmyk | abq / alt / bul / chv / kjh / kom / krc / kum / lez / mhr / mon / oss / rus / tyv / udm / xal | Парагвай | Paragvaj |
| Bashkir, Chechen | bak / che | Парагвай / Paragvay | Paragvay |
| Kabardian, Yakut | kbd / sah | Парагуай | Paraguaj |
| Rusyn, Ukrainian | rue / ukr | Параґвай | Paragvaj |
| Abkhaz | abk | Парагваи | Paragvai |
| Avar | ava | Парагвай | Paragwaj |
| Belarusian | bel | Парагвай / Parahvaj | Parahvaj |
| Kazakh | kaz | Парагвай / پاراگۆاي / Paragvay | Paragvay |
| Kyrgyz | kir | Парагвай / پاراگۋاي / Paragvay | Paragvay |
| Kurdish (Caucasus) | kmr | Парагԝай / Paragway, Парагвай / Paragvay, Парагԝа / Paragwa | Paragway, Paragvay, Paragwa |
| Macedonian | mkd | Парагвај | Paragvaj |
| Serbian | srp | Парагвај / Paragvaj | Paragvaj |
| Tatar | tat | Парагвай / Paragvay / پاراگۋاي | Paragvay |
| Tajik | tgk | Парагвай / پرگوی / Paragvaj | Paragvaj |
| Arabic | ara | باراغواي, بارغواي, برغواي, الباراغواي, البارغواي, باراجواى, بارجواى, الباراجواى, البارجواى, برجواي, البرجواى | Bārāġuwāy, Bāraġuwāy, Baraġwāy, al-Bārāġuwāy, al-Bāraġuwāy, Bārāguwāy, Bāraguwāy, al-Bārāguwāy, al-Bāraguwāy, Baragwāy, al-Baragwāy |
| South Azerbaijani | azb | پاراقوای / Paraqvay | Paraqvay |
| Sorani Kurdish | ckb | پاراگوای / Paragway | Paragway |
| Persian | fas | پاراگوئه / Pârâgue, پاراگه / Pârâge | Pârâgue, Pârâge |
| Western Punjabi | pnb | پیراگوئے | Pærāgūʾe |
| Dari | prs | پاراگوی | Pārāgvay |
| Pashto | pus | پاراګوي | Pārāgway |
| Uyghur | uig | پاراگۋاي / Paragway / Парагвай | Paragway |
| Urdu | urd | پیراگوائے, پیراگوئے | Pērāgvāʾe, Pērāgūʾe |
| Dhivehi | div | ޕެރަގުއޭ | Peraguē |
| Hebrew | heb | פרגוי, פרגוואי, פאראגוואי | Paragvay, Paragvāy, Pārāgvāy |
| Ladino | lad | פאראגואיי / Paraguay | Paraguay |
| Yiddish | yid | פּאַראַגװײַ | Paragvay |
| Berber | ber | ⴱⴰⵔⴰⴳⵡⴰⵢ / Baragway | Baragway |
| Amharic | amh | ፓራግዋይ, ፓራጓይ | Paragway, Paragʷay |
| Greek | ell | Παραγουάη | Paragoyáī |
| Armenian | hye | Պարագվայ | Paragvay |
| Georgian, Mingrelian | kat / xmf | პარაგვაი | Paragvai |
| Laz | lzz | პარაგუაი / P’araguai | P’araguai |
| Hindi | hin | पारागुए, परागुआ, पारागुआ | Pārāgue, Parāguā, Pārāguā |
| Bengali | ben | প্যারাগুয়ে, প্যারাগোয়ে, পারাগুয়ে | Pærāguye, Pærāgoye, Pārāguye |
| Gujarati | guj | પારાગ્વે | Pārāgve |
| Odia | ori | ପାରାଗୁଏ | Pārāgue |
| Punjabi | pan | ਪੈਰਾਗਵੇ | Pærāgve |
| Sinhala | sin | පැරගුවේ | Pæraguvē |
| Kannada | kan | ಪಾರಾಗ್ವೇ, ಪೆರಗ್ವೆ | Pārāgvē, Peragve |
| Malayalam | mal | പരാഗ്വേ | Parāgvē |
| Tamil | tam | பராகுவே | Parākuvē |
| Telugu | tel | పరాగ్వే | Parāgvē |
| Chinese | zho | 巴拉圭 | Bālāguī |
| Japanese | jpn | パラグアイ | Paraguai |
| Korean | kor | 파라과이 | Paragwai |
| Tibetan | bod | པ་ལ་ཀུའེ།, པ་ར་གུ་ཡེ། | Pa.la.ku'e, Pa.ra.gu.ye |
| Burmese | mya | ပါရာဂွေး | Paẏagwè |
| Thai | tha | ปารากวัย | Pārākwây |
| Khmer | khm | ប៉ារ៉ាហ្គាយ | Bārāhkāy |
02 · NamesU+00E3 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH TILDE
Paraguay, Paraguai, Paraguái: the name across languages
35 languages in the list keep the Spanish spelling Paraguay, English, German and French among them. Portuguese, Catalan, Galician, Basque and Occitan write Paraguai, Polish, Maltese and Silesian Paragwaj, Croatian and Slovenian Paragvaj, and Haitian Creole, Kinyarwanda and Kirundi Paragwe. Guarani itself writes Paraguái with an accent, and Aymara and Quechua share Parawayi.
In Guarani the capital takes the name of the country: Asunción is Paraguay, while the country is Paraguái and its official name Tetã Paraguáipe. Other languages translate or adapt the Spanish Asunción: Assunção in Portuguese, Assumptio in Latin, Asunsyon in Tagalog and Azerbaijani, Asunciono in Esperanto. English writes the name without the accent, Asuncion.
Asunción in other languages
| Languages | ISO 639-3 | Name | Romanised |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | eng | Asuncion | same as written |
| German, Luxembourgish, Low German, French, Spanish, Swedish, Irish | deu / ltz / nds / fra / spa / swe / gle | Asunción | same as written |
| Aragonese | arg | Asunzión | same as written |
| Azerbaijani | aze | Asunsyon / Асунсјон | Asunsyon |
| Bosnian | bos | Asunción / Асунсион / آسۆنسٖىۉن | Asunción |
| Esperanto | epo | Asunciono | same as written |
| Guarani | grn | Paraguay | same as written |
| Icelandic | isl | Asúnsjón | same as written |
| Kurmanji Kurdish | kur | Asûnsiyon | same as written |
| Latin | lat | Assumptio | same as written |
| Latvian | lav | Asunsjona | same as written |
| Lithuanian | lit | Asunsjonas | same as written |
| Moldovan | mol | Asuncion / Асунсион | Asuncion |
| Malay | msa | Asuncion / اسونسيون | Asuncion |
| Portuguese | por | Assunção | same as written |
| Quechua | que | Asunsyun | same as written |
| Slovio | slo | Asuncion / Асунцион | Asuncion |
| Samogitian | smg | Asunsjuons | same as written |
| Tetum | tet | Asunsaun | same as written |
| Tagalog | tgl | Asunsyon | same as written |
| Turkmen | tuk | Asunsýon / Асунсьон | Asunsýon |
| Uzbek | uzb | Asunsyon / Асунсьон / ئەسۇنسيان | Asunsyon |
| Bulgarian, Mongolian | bul / mon | Асунсион | Asunsion |
| Bashkir | bak | Асунсьон / Asunsyon | Asunsyon |
| Belarusian | bel | Асунс’ён / Asunsion | Asunsion |
| Kazakh | kaz | Асунсьон / اسۋنسيون / Aswnsyon | Aswnsyon |
| Kyrgyz | kir | Асунсьон / اسۇنسيون / Asunsyon | Asunsyon |
| Russian | rus | Асунсьон | Asuns'on |
| Serbian | srp | Асунсион / Asunsion | Asunsion |
| Tatar | tat | Асунсьон / Asunsyon / ئاسۇنسيون | Asunsyon |
| Tajik | tgk | Асунсён / اسونسیان / Asunsjon | Asunsjon |
| Ukrainian | ukr | Асунсьйон | Asuns'jon |
| Arabic | ara | أسونسيون, أسنسيون, آسونسيون, آسنسيون | Asūnsiyūn, Asunsiyūn, Āsūnsiyūn, Āsunsiyūn |
| South Azerbaijani | azb | آسونسیون / Asunsyon | Asunsyon |
| Persian | fas | آسونسیون / Âsunsiyon | Âsunsiyon |
| Pashto | pus | اسونسيون | Asūnsiyōn |
| Uyghur | uig | ئاسۇنسيون / Asunsyon / Асунсьон | Asunsyon |
| Urdu | urd | ایسونسیون | Ēsūnsiyōn |
| Hebrew | heb | אסונסיון | Asūnsyōn |
| Yiddish | yid | אַסונסיִאָן | Asunsion |
| Amharic | amh | አሱንሲዮን | Ăsunsiyon |
| Greek (Demotic) | ell | Ασουνσιόν | Asoynsión |
| Greek (Katharevousa) | ell | Ἀσουνσιόν | Asoynsión |
| Armenian | hye | Ասունսյոն | Asounsyon |
| Georgian | kat | ასუნსიონი | Asunsioni |
| Nepali | nep | एसुन्सिओन | Esunsion |
| Bengali | ben | আসুনসিয়ন | Āsunsiyôn |
| Punjabi | pan | ਅਸੂਨਸਿਓਨ | Asūnsion |
| Kannada | kan | ಅಸುನ್ಸಿಯಾನ್, ಅಸೂನ್ಸಿಯಾನ್ | Asunsiyān, Asūnsiyān |
| Malayalam | mal | അസുന്സ്യോൻ | Asunsyōn |
| Chinese | zho | 亞松森/亚松森 | Yàsōngsēn |
| Japanese | jpn | アスンシオン | Asunshion |
| Korean | kor | 아순시온 | Asunsion |
| Tibetan | bod | ཨ་སུན་སི་ཨོང། | A.sun.si.oṅ |
| Thai | tha | อะซุนซิโอน, อะซุนซิออง, อาซุนซิออน | Asunsi'ōn, Asunsi'ɔ̄n, Āsunsi'ɔ̄n |
| Khmer | khm | អាស៊ុនស៊ីយ៉ុន, អាសាន់សៀន | Āsunsīyun, Āsansien |
Guarani gives the capital the name of the country, Paraguay, and Latin translates the Spanish word as Assumptio.
The 17 departments of Paraguay in Spanish and Guarani
ISO 3166-2:PY numbers the 17 departments from 1 to 16 and 19, from Concepción to Boquerón, and codes the capital Asunción with letters. Each row gives the Spanish and Guarani name, the English form, the code and the capital.
| ISO 3166-2 | Spanish | Guarani | English | Administrative centre | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Departments17 | |||||
| PY-1 | Departamento de Concepción | Tetãvore Concepción | Concepción Department | ConcepciónConcepción | |
| PY-2 | Departamento de San Pedro | Tetãvore San Pedro | San Pedro Department | San Pedro del YcuamandiyúSan Pedro del Ycuamandiyú (Guarani Ykuamandyju) | |
| PY-3 | Departamento de Cordillera | Tetãvore Cordillera | Cordillera Department | CaacupéCaacupé (Guarani Ka’akupe) | |
| PY-4 | Departamento de Guairá | Tetãvore Guaira | Guairá Department | VillarricaVillarrica (Guarani Villarrika) | |
| PY-5 | Departamento de Caaguazú | Tetãvore Ka’aguasu | Caaguazú Department | Coronel OviedoCoronel Oviedo | |
| PY-6 | Departamento de Caazapá | Tetãvore Ka’asapa | Caazapá Department | CaazapáCaazapá (Guarani Ka’asapa) | |
| PY-7 | Departamento de Itapúa | Tetãvore Itapúa | Itapúa Department | EncarnaciónEncarnación | |
| PY-8 | Departamento de Misiones | Tetãvore Misiones | Misiones Department | San Juan Bautista de las MisionesSan Juan Bautista de las Misiones | |
| PY-9 | Departamento de Paraguarí | Tetãvore Paraguari | Paraguarí Department | ParaguaríParaguarí (Guarani Paraguari) | |
| PY-10 | Departamento de Alto Paraná | Tetãvore Alto Parana | Alto Paraná Department | Ciudad del EsteCiudad del Este (Guarani Kuarahyresẽme) | |
| PY-11 | Departamento Central | Tetãvore Central | Central Department | AreguáAreguá (Guarani Aregua) | |
| PY-12 | Departamento de Ñeembucú | Tetãvore Ñe’ẽmbuku | Ñeembucú Department | PilarPilar | |
| PY-13 | Departamento de Amambay | Tetãvore Amambái | Amambay Department | Pedro Juan CaballeroPedro Juan Caballero | |
| PY-14 | Departamento de Canindeyú | Tetãvore Kanindeju | Canindeyú Department | Salto del GuairáSalto del Guairá | |
| PY-15 | Departamento de Presidente Hayes | Tetãvore Presidente Hayes | Presidente Hayes Department | Villa HayesVilla Hayes | |
| PY-16 | Departamento de Alto Paraguay | Tetãvore Alto Paraguái | Alto Paraguay Department | Fuerte OlimpoFuerte Olimpo | |
| PY-19 | Departamento de Boquerón | Tetãvore Boquerón | Boquerón Department | FiladelfiaFiladelfia | |
| Capital1 | |||||
| PY-ASU | Asunción | Paraguay | Asunción (capital) | AsunciónAsunción | |
Codes: ISO 3166-2:PY on the ISO Online Browsing Platform, read from the English Wikipedia mirror on 28 October 2026. Spanish and Guarani names and capitals: the 2016 edition of this list.
05 · DepartmentsU+00D1 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH TILDE
Departamentos and tetãvore: departments in two languages
Every department has a Guarani name built with tetãvore, department: Tetãvore Ka’aguasu for Caaguazú, Tetãvore Ñe’ẽmbuku for Ñeembucú, Tetãvore Kanindeju for Canindeyú. Several capitals also carry a Guarani form of their own, from Kuarahyresẽme for Ciudad del Este to Ykuamandyju for San Pedro del Ycuamandiyú.
The ISO numbering skips 17 and 18, so the codes run from PY-1 for Concepción to PY-16 for Alto Paraguay and continue with PY-19 for Boquerón; Asunción has the letter code PY-ASU. The departments and their codes are the same as in the 2016 edition of this list.
06 · Anthem
Paraguayos, República o Muerte: the national anthem
The words in Spanish by Francisco Acuña de Figueroa (1790–1862), adopted in 1846: the refrain, then the seven stanzas.
- Paraguayos, ¡república o muerte! / nuestro brío nos dio libertad / ni opresores, ni siervos alientan / donde reina unión e igualdad.
- A los pueblos de América, infausto / tres centurias un cetro oprimió, / mas un día soberbia surgiendo, / «¡Basta!» -dijo, y el cetro rompió. / Nuestros padres, lidiando grandiosos, / ilustraron su gloria marcial / y trozada la augusta diadema, / enalzaron el gorro triunfal.
- Nueva Roma, la Patria ostentará / dos caudillos de nombre y valer, / que rivales -cual Rómulo y Remo- / dividieron gobierno y poder. / Largos años -cual Febo entre nubes- / viose oculta la perla del Sud. / Hoy un héroe grandioso aparece / realzando su gloria y virtud…
- Con aplauso la Europa y el Mundo / la saludan, y aclaman también / de heroísmo: baluarte invencible, / de riquezas: magnífico Edén. / Cuando entorno rugió la Discordia / que otros Pueblos fatal devoró, / paraguayos, el suelo sagrado / con sus alas un ángel cubrió.
- ¡Oh! cuán pura, de lauro ceñida, / dulce Patria te ostentas así / En tu enseña se ven los colores / del zafiro, diamante y rubí. / En tu escudo que el sol ilumina, / bajo el gorro se mira el león. / Doble imagen de fuertes y libres, / y de glorias, recuerdo y blasón.
- De la tumba del vil feudalismo / se alza libre la Patria deidad / opresores, ¡doblad rodilla! / compatriotas, ¡el Himno entonad! / Suene el grito: «¡República o muerte!», / nuestros pechos lo exhalen con fe, / y sus ecos repitan los montes / cual gigantes poniéndose en pie.
- Libertad y justicia defiende / nuestra Patria; tiranos, ¡oíd!: / de sus fueros la carta sagrada / su heroísmo sustenta en la lid. / Contra el mundo, si el mundo se opone, / Si intentare su prenda insultar, / batallando vengar la sabremos / o abrazo con ella expirar.
- Alza, oh Pueblo, tu espada esplendente / que fulmina destellos de Dios, / no hay más medio que libre o esclavo / y un abismo divide a los dos. / En las auras el Himno resuene, / repitiendo con eco triunfal: / ¡a los libres perínclita gloria! / ¡a la Patria laurel inmortal!
07 · Questions
Questions about the name Paraguay
What is Paraguay called in Guarani?
Paraguái; the official name is Tetã Paraguáipe, in Spanish República del Paraguay.
What is the national anthem of Paraguay?
Paraguayos, República o Muerte, with words by Francisco Acuña de Figueroa, adopted in 1846.
How many departments does Paraguay have?
17, coded PY-1 to PY-16 and PY-19, plus the capital district of Asunción (PY-ASU).