Countries

Paraguay

Paraguay is a landlocked country in the heart of South America, split by the Paraguay River into a green, populated east and the dry Gran Chaco to the west. Independent from Spain since 1811, it is one of the few countries where an Indigenous language, Guarani, is spoken by most people alongside Spanish.

Apartment towers and low rooftops of Asuncion silhouetted against a purple dusk sky, Paraguay

Asuncion at dusk

Photo: Abel Maestro Garcia from Asunción, España, Public domain

Red, white and blue with the national emblem in the centre. It is one of very few flags with two different sides: the back shows the treasury seal instead. Adopted in 1842.

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