To provide a paper container which has both a gas barrier property and a steam barrier property, and of which the ash remaining when the waste is incinerated is less, and from which a recycled paper can be easily obtained without reducing the quality when it is recycled as paper.

For a paper container 11 made of a laminate using a paper 1, the laminate 10 is constituted at least of an external surface heat sealant layer 21 on one side of the paper 1, and a highly moistureproof gas barrier layer 6 consisting of a gas barrier layer 3 and a high moistureproof layer 4 and an internal surface heat sealant layer 22, on the other side of the paper 1.