Largest Cities in Paraguay 2026: Population Ranking

Paraguay's cities at a glance

Updated October 2026

Dots sized by population · Asunción in orange

Paraguay has 1 city with more than a million inhabitants and 6 with more than 100,000 (city-proper figures). The largest is Asunción with 1,482,200 people, followed by Ciudad del Este (301,815) and San Lorenzo (227,876). The three largest cities together hold about 28.3% of the country's 7.1 million people.

The capital, Asunción, is also the largest city.

By region, the most large cities are in Central Department (12), Caaguazú Department (3), Alto Paraná Department (2).

Country-level figures — live population, births and deaths, growth, density and history — are on the Paraguay population page; provinces, terrain, rivers and society maps are in the Paraguay atlas.

Paraguay cities by population

30 cities · GeoNames · city proper

#	City	Region	Population	Share of Paraguay
1	AsunciónCapital	Asuncion	1,482,200	20.8%
2	Ciudad del Este	Alto Paraná Department	301,815	4.2%
3	San Lorenzo	Central Department	227,876	3.2%
4	Capiatá	Central Department	198,553	2.8%
5	Lambaré	Central Department	126,377	1.8%
6	Fernando de la Mora	Central Department	120,167	1.7%
7	Limpio	Central Department	96,143	1.4%
8	Nemby	Central Department	94,641	1.3%
9	Pedro Juan Caballero	Amambay Department	75,109	1.1%
10	Encarnación	Itapúa	74,983	1.1%
11	Mariano Roque Alonso	Central Department	72,008	1%
12	Itauguá	Central Department	64,997	0.9%
13	Villa Elisa	Central Department	64,099	0.9%
14	Villa Hayes	Presidente Hayes	57,217	0.8%
15	Caacupé	Cordillera Department	56,864	0.8%
16	San Antonio	Central Department	55,754	0.8%
17	Caaguazú	Caaguazú Department	54,808	0.8%
18	Presidente Franco	Alto Paraná Department	54,292	0.8%
19	Coronel Oviedo	Caaguazú Department	51,286	0.7%
20	Concepción	Concepción	48,123	0.7%
21	Villarrica	Guairá	41,157	0.6%
22	Doctor Juan Eulogio Estigarribia	Caaguazú Department	38,894	0.5%
23	Villeta	Central Department	36,985	0.5%
24	Pilar	Ñeembucú Department	32,810	0.5%
25	Yby Yaú	Concepción	31,290	0.4%
26	Caazapá	Caazapá	23,996	0.3%
27	Filadelfia	Boquerón Department	19,927	0.3%
28	Itá	Central Department	18,459	0.3%
29	San Juan Bautista	Misiones Department	16,593	0.2%
30	Loma Plata	Boquerón Department	16,460	0.2%

Cities with 300,000 or more people link to their own page. The list keeps every city of 100,000+ and at least the 30 largest places of the country.

Frequently asked questions

What is the largest city in Paraguay?

Asunción, with about 1,482,200 inhabitants (city proper).

What is the capital of Paraguay?

Asunción — population 1,482,200, the largest city in the country.

How many cities in Paraguay have over one million people?

1: Asunción.

Are these metropolitan-area populations?

No. They are city-proper figures (the administrative city) from GeoNames, based on the latest census or official estimate. Metropolitan areas, which include suburbs and satellite towns, are larger — often several times larger for the biggest cities.

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