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Look at a Paraguayan passport and you are holding a document of one of South America's most singular nations - the only country in the Americas where an indigenous language is spoken by the majority of citizens. Roughly 77% of Paraguayans understand Guarani, and the naturalization interview at the Supreme Court can be passed in Guarani rather than Spanish. The nation's very money carries that identity: the currency is the guarani, deliberately named to reject colonial terminology. Few national documents are so bound to a native tongue that the language names the cash in your wallet and greets new citizens at the bench.

• Currency Paraguay's currency, the guarani, was introduced in 1944 to replace the inflation-ravaged peso at a rate of 100 to 1, and was named after the indigenous Guarani people as a conscious rejection of colonial terminology.
• Passport The Paraguayan passport ranked 26th worldwide on the 2025 Henley Passport Index, granting roughly 145 destinations visa-free or visa-on-arrival, including the entire European Union, Singapore, Russia and Turkey.
• Citizenship Naturalization under Article 148 of the constitution requires just three years of residency plus a conversational interview at the Supreme Court that can be conducted in Guarani as readily as Spanish - and the new national ID (cedula) is issued without any 'foreigner' field.
• Language Paraguay is the only country in the Americas where a native language survives in the majority population, with around 77% of citizens understanding Guarani - an official language alongside Spanish since the 1992 constitution.
• History In the War of the Triple Alliance (1864-1870), the deadliest interstate conflict in Latin American history, Paraguay's population collapsed from roughly 525,000 to about 221,000, with up to 90% of adult men killed.
• Independence Paraguay won independence from Spain on 14 May 1811 in a virtually bloodless revolution, becoming one of the first independent republics of the New World after the United States.
• Energy Sharing the colossal Itaipu Dam on the Parana River with Brazil, landlocked Paraguay generates far more electricity than it can use and is one of the world's largest exporters of hydroelectric power.
• Navy Despite having no coastline, Paraguay maintains the largest navy of any fully landlocked nation, patrolling its great rivers with around three dozen vessels - some over a century old, preserved by floating in fresh water.
• Money Paraguay's monetary reserves remain unusually tied to history: a small portion is still held in gold, a faint echo of the gold standard that most nations abandoned generations ago.