[Area] 406,800 square kilometers.

[Population] 7,454,000 (2022) 95% Indo-European, the rest Indian and Caucasian. The official languages are Spanish and Guarani. 89.6% of the inhabitants are Catholics and 1.8% are indigenous.

[Capital] Asunción, with a population of 522,000, has a summer temperature of 22-35℃ and a winter temperature of 12-22℃.

[Brief description] of the country: A landlocked country in South America, neighboring Argentina, Bolivia and Brazil. Located in the northern part of the La Plata Plain, the Paraguay River divides the country into two parts, east and west, from north to south. The eastern part is characterized by hills, swamps, and undulating plains, where more than 90% of the country's population is concentrated; virgin forests and grasslands characterize the western part. The climate is subtropical, with an average temperature of 27°C in summer and 17°C in winter. The average annual precipitation is 1,500 millimeters in the east and 500 millimeters in the west.

Initially inhabited by the Indian Guarani people, it became a Spanish colony in 1537 and declared independence on May 14, 1811. In 1865, the Lopez government attacked the southwestern part of the country to expand its territory, and a coalition of Brazilian, Argentinean, and Uruguayan armies declared war on the country. After five years of war, Paraguay lost the war, and the Lopez government ceded land and made reparations, reducing its territory by nearly half and losing its access to the sea, making it a landlocked country. After the 1870s, the Red Party and the Liberal Party alternated in power. Between 1932 and 1935, there was the Chaco War, a war between Paraguay and Bolivia over oil resources, which was followed by the signing of a peace agreement in which Paraguay was given three-quarters of the Chaco region. On May 4, 1954, a group of soldiers, Stroessner, and others, joined forces with the Bolivian government to fight for oil resources in Paraguay. On May 4, 1954, Stroessner, a member of the military, together with the right wing of the Red Party, staged a coup d'état and came to power, exercising a military dictatorship for 35 years. On February 2, 1989, Rodríguez, commander of the First Military Region of the Republic, staged a coup d'état, overthrowing the Stroessner dictatorship, and in May of the same year, held the first democratic election, in which he was elected president. In the 1993 presidential election, the Red Party candidate, Vasimosi, won, and the first democratically elected civilian government since 1954 was established.

(Source: Official website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China:https://www.mfa.gov.cn/web/gjhdq_676201/gj_676203/bmz_679954/)