Paraguay is South America's 'empty quarter,' a country little known even to its neighbors. For much of its history it has distanced itself from the Latin American mainstream, and for most of this century was South America's most notorious and durable police state.

Area: 407,000 sq km (158,730 sq mi)
Population: 4.8 million
Capital: Asunción
Borders: Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia

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