Greater Asunción
Greater Asunción (Spanish: Gran Asunción) is the metropolitan area of the capital city of Paraguay, Asunción.
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 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
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.
References
- ^ "Gran Asuncion". Trip.com. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
External links
- Media related to Gran Asunción at Wikimedia Commons