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Paraguay

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Par·a·guay  (pr-gw, -gw)
A landlocked country of south-central South America. Inhabited principally by the Guarani, the region was first explored by Europeans in 1516 and grew around the colony of Asunción (founded in the 1530s). Paraguay achieved de facto independence from Spain in 1811 and was ruled by a series of dictators in the 19th century. Paraguay was involved in costly wars with Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay (1865-1870) and Bolivia (1932-1935). Asunción is the capital and the largest city. Population: 6,030,000.

Para·guayan adj. & n.
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Paraguay
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Noun1.ParaguayParaguay - a landlocked republic in south central South America; achieved independence from Spain in 1811
OAS, Organization of American States - an association including most countries in the western hemisphere; created in 1948 to promote military and economic and social and cultural cooperation
Triple Frontier - the border area where Argentina and Brazil and Paraguay meet; an active South American center for contraband and drug trafficking and money laundering; a suspected locale for Islamic extremist groups
Asuncion, capital of Paraguay - the capital and chief port of Paraguay
Parana, Parana River - a South American river; tributary of Rio de la Plata
Guaira, Guaira Falls, Sete Quedas - a great waterfall on the border between Brazil and Paraguay
South America - a continent in the western hemisphere connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama
Paraguayan - a native or inhabitant of Paraguay
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Spanish Paraguay [ˈpærəgwaɪ] nParaguay m
French Paraguay [ˈpærəgwaɪ] nParaguay m
Italian Paraguay [ˈpærəgwaɪ] nParaguay m

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Perhaps Paraguay offers the most curious instance of this; for here neither cattle nor horses nor dogs have ever run wild, though they swarm southward and northward in a feral state; and Azara and Rengger have shown that this is caused by the greater number in Paraguay of a certain fly, which lays its eggs in the navels of these animals when first born.
I had been standing with my face to the window and, I declare, not knowing what I was looking at across the road - the Desert of Sahara or a wall of bricks, a landscape of rivers and forests or only the Consulate of Paraguay.
Ask him the grain output of Paraguay for 1903, or the English importation of sheetings into China for
 
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