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Paraguay

Paraguay is one of the 193 UN member states, in South America. UN Tourism counted 4.4 million international arrivals there in 2019, more visited than 62% of the 199 places with figures, so its stamp in Globestamp is printed in Colour-shift.

Paraguay’s stamp in Globestamp
Colour-shift · 2 to 6 million visitors a year
International arrivals
4.4 millionin 2019, UN Tourism
Rank by visitors
76th of 199most visited first
Stamp finish
Colour-shiftrarer than 38%
Area
400,857 km² (154,771 sq mi)
Population
7 millionNatural Earth estimate
Departments
18in Globestamp’s regions layer
Airports
3with scheduled flights
World Heritage Sites
1on Globestamp’s list

Does Paraguay count as a country?

Yes. Paraguay is one of the 193 UN member states, so every common list counts it: the UN’s 193, Globestamp’s 250 and the Travelers’ Century Club’s 330.

The Paraguay stamp

Every country in Globestamp has its own stamp, drawn after a real entry stamp. Its finish shows how few travelers get there. Paraguay’s is Colour-shift: one colour straight on, another at an angle, the finish for places with 2 to 6 million visitors a year. With 4.4 million international arrivals in 2019, Paraguay is more visited than 62% of the 199 places with figures. See every stamp on the stamp wall, or the rarest on the least-visited countries.

What counts as a visit to Paraguay

The common rule among travelers is that you set foot there: an airport layover usually doesn’t count, and a port where you went ashore does. Globestamp counts Paraguay when one of your photos was taken on its ground, or just off its coast; a photo taken from a plane never counts. Photos only at an airport make a transit stamp in lighter ink, counted only if you count layovers. Read more in how to count the countries you’ve visited.

Places in Paraguay you can collect

Under the country itself, Globestamp keeps layers of places on your globe, and a photo taken at one ticks it. These are the ones it knows in Paraguay, from 1 World Heritage Site.

World Heritage Sites 1

Jesuit Missions of La Santísima Trinidad de Paraná and Jesús de Tavarangüé (1993). On the bucket list →

Botanical gardens 1

Botanical Garden and Zoo of Asunción. On the bucket list →

Largest cities

CityPeople (urban area)
Asunción1,870,000
San Lorenzo500,000
Encarnación357,119
Ciudad del Este320,872
Pedro Juan Caballero102,787
Coronel Oviedo88,101
Concepción59,118

Airports

Paraguay has 3 airports with scheduled flights, 3 of them large. Each is a dot on Globestamp’s airports layer, and every flight you log adds to how far you’ve flown (try the flight distance calculator).

18 departments to fill in

Globestamp goes deeper than countries: its regions layer splits Paraguay into 18 departments (Natural Earth’s first-level divisions), and each one fills in when a photo was taken there.

All 18

Alto Paraguay · Alto Paraná · Amambay · Asunción · Boquerón · Caaguazú · Caazapá · Canindeyú · Central · Concepción · Cordillera · Guairá · Itapúa · Misiones · Ñeembucú · Paraguarí · Presidente Hayes · San Pedro

Questions people ask

Is Paraguay a country?

Yes. Paraguay is one of the 193 UN member states, so every common list counts it: the UN’s 193, Globestamp’s 250 and the Travelers’ Century Club’s 330.

How many tourists visit Paraguay a year?

UN Tourism (via the World Bank) counted 4,368,000 international arrivals in Paraguay in 2019, the 76th most of the 199 places with figures. Countries count arrivals in different ways (some include day-trippers and cruise passengers), so treat it as a rough rank rather than an exact number of tourists.

How rare is a Paraguay stamp in Globestamp?

It is printed in Colour-shift, the finish for places with 2 to 6 million visitors a year, rarer than 38% of the places with figures. The fewer travelers a place receives, the rarer its finish, from plain Ink to Mythic.

Does Paraguay count for the Travelers’ Century Club?

Yes. The Travelers’ Century Club counts it as “Paraguay”, one of its 330 destinations.

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Near Paraguay

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