Gran Asunción
Greater Asunción (Spanish: Gran Asunción) is the metropolitan area of the capital city of Paraguay, Asunción.[1]
Gran Asunción | |
|---|---|
| Greater Asunción | |
 | |
| Country |  Paraguay
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| Major Cities | Asunción San Lorenzo Luque Capiatá Lambaré Fernando de la Mora |
| Area | |
| • Metro | 2,582 km2 (997 sq mi) |
| Population (2020) | |
| • Metro | 2,722,668 |
| • Metro density | 1,054/km2 (2,730/sq mi) |
It consists of twenty cities: Asunción itself, the capital, and the surrounding cities in Central Department. One in three Paraguayans live in this metropolitan area, which has more than 2.7 million inhabitants.
List of cities in Great Asunción
| N° | City | Department | Area | Population |  Asunción (dark blue) and the metropolitan rings in Central Department. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Asunción | Distrito Capital | 117 | 521 559 | |
| 2 | Luque | Central | 152 | 281 719 | |
| 3 | San Lorenzo | Central | 56 | 258 919 | |
| 4 | Capiatá | Central | 88 | 240 950 | |
| 5 | Lambaré | Central | 27 | 182 689 | |
| 6 | Fernando de la Mora | Central | 20 | 180 186 | |
| 7 | Limpio | Central | 110 | 150 566 | |
| 8 | Ñemby | Central | 29 | 144 106 | |
| 9 | Itauguá | Central | 126 | 112 162 | |
| 10 | Mariano Roque Alonso | Central | 40 | 105 789 | |
| 11 | Itá | Central | 182 | 82 032 | |
| 12 | Villa Elisa | Central | 18 | 81 223 | |
| 13 | Areguá | Central | 114 | 77 652 | |
| 14 | San Antonio | Central | 23 | 69 976 | |
| 15 | Ypané | Central | 53 | 56 793 | |
| 16 | Saldívar | Central | 32 | 55 055 | |
| 17 | Villeta | Central | 868 | 41 235 | |
| 18 | Guarambaré | Central | 30 | 39 084 | |
| 19 | Ypacaraí | Central | 111 | 28 283 | |
| 20 | Nueva Italia | Central | 386 | 12 690 | |
| Total | 2582 | 2 722 668 |
Transportation
The Silvio Pettirossi International Airport in Luque connects this metropolitan area with other American and European destinations.
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