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(/ˈpærəɡwaɪ/; Spanish pronunciation: [paɾaˈɣwai̯]; Guarani: Paraguái, [paɾaˈɣwaj]), officially the Republic of Paraguay (Spanish: República del Paraguay; Guarani: Tetã Paraguái)
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(“paraguay” is a landlocked country in central South America, bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and ‘Bolivia’ to the ‘northwest’)
(‘paraguay’ lies on both banks of the ‘Paraguay River’, which runs through the center of the country from north to south)
(due to its central location in ‘South America’, it is sometimes referred to as Corazón de Sudamérica (“Heart of South America”))
(‘Paraguay’ is one of the two landlocked countries (the other is ‘Bolivia’) that lie outside ‘Afro-Eurasia’)
(‘Paraguay’ is the smallest landlocked country in the ‘Americas’)
(must get awful claustrophobic in there!)
(the indigenous ‘Guaraní’ had been living in ‘Paraguay’ for at least a millennium before the ‘Spanish’ conquered the territory in the 16th century)
(Spanish settlers and Jesuit missions introduced ‘Christianity’ and Spanish culture to the region)
(‘Paraguay’ was a peripheral colony of the ‘Spanish Empire’, with few urban centers and settlers)
(following independence from Spain in 1811, ‘Paraguay’ was ruled by a series of dictators who generally implemented isolationist and ‘protectionist’ policies)
(following the disastrous ‘Paraguayan War’ (1864–1870), the country lost 60 to 70 percent of its population through war and disease, and about 140,000 square kilometers (54,054 sq mi), one quarter of its territory, to ‘Argentina’ and ‘Brazil’)
(through the 20th century, ‘Paraguay’ continued to endure a succession of authoritarian governments, culminating in the regime of ‘Alfredo Stroessner’, who led South America’s longest-lived military dictatorship from 1954 to 1989)
(he was toppled in an internal military coup, and free multi-party elections (plus the legalization of communist parties) were organized and held for the first time in 1993)
(a year later, ‘Paraguay’ joined ‘Argentina’, ‘Brazil’, and ‘Uruguay’ to found ‘Mercosur’, a regional economic collaborative)
(as of 2009, Paraguay’s population was estimated to be at around 6.5 million, most of whom are concentrated in the southeast region of the country)
(the capital and largest city is ‘Asunción’, of which the metropolitan area is home to nearly a third of Paraguay’s population)
(in contrast to most Latin American nations, Paraguay’s indigenous language and culture, ‘Guaraní’, remains highly influential)
(in each census, residents predominantly identify as ‘mestizo’, reflecting years of intermarriage among the different ethnic groups)
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(‘guaraní’ is recognized as an official language alongside ‘spanish’, and both languages are widely spoken in the country)
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