Generates almost all of its electricity from renewable sources, and has more cattle than people by about four to one.
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Uruguay
Oriental Republic of Uruguay
South America
ยท South America
0Population
181.03Kkmยฒ of land
$16.19KGDP / person
MontevideoCapital
- ISO codes
- UY ยท URY
- Density
- 19 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Spanish
- Currency
- Uruguayan peso (UYU)
- Dial code
- +598
- Internet domain
- .uy
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 32.9610ยฐ S, 55.9670ยฐ W
- Demonym
- Uruguayan
- UN region
- Americas ยท South America
- Economy
- Emerging region: G20
- Income group
- Upper middle income
- Total GDP
- $56.05B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 2
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By the numbers
How Uruguay stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
134th
of 242 ยท 0.05% of world population
Land area
92nd
of 242 ยท 0.12% of world land
GDP per person
81st
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
191st
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Uruguay
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 3,461,734 people, the 134th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 2,218 of everyone alive.
Covers 181,034 kmยฒ, making it the 92nd largest country here - about 5.9 times the size of Belgium.
Population density is about 19 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Montevideo, at 34.86ยฐ S, 56.17ยฐ W, with a metropolitan population of about 1,513,000.
Shares land borders with 2 countries: Argentina and Brazil.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, America/Montevideo.
The currency is the Uruguayan peso (UYU, symbol $).
The official language is Spanish.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
America/Montevideo
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UTCโ03:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
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Montevideo
Montevideo
34.8561ยฐ S, 56.1730ยฐ W
1.51M
2
Durazno
Durazno
33.4100ยฐ S, 56.5101ยฐ W
34.04K
Land neighbours
2 countries share a border with Uruguay.