Gran Asunción

Gran Asunción
Greater Asunción
Country	Paraguay
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)

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	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.

External links

• Media related to Gran Asunción at Wikimedia Commons