South America
Uruguay
Oriental Republic of Uruguay
Core facts
- Capital
- Montevideo
- Population
- 3,499,451
- Area
- 181,034 km^2
- Country code
- URY
- Flag emoji
- 🇺🇾
- UN member
- Yes
- Independent
- Yes
- Population density
- 19.3 per km^2
- Calling code
- +598
Culture and society
- Languages
- Spanish
- Religions
- Christianity (76.0%), Unaffiliated (19.0%), Other religions (3.0%), Islam (100.0%), Judaism (100.0%)
- Native names
- Uruguay
- Demonyms (EN)
- Uruguayan / Uruguayan
- Start of week
- monday
- Driving side
- right
- Timezones
- UTC-03:00
- Alternative spellings
- UY, Oriental Republic of Uruguay, República Oriental del Uruguay
Geography and map
- Continents
- South America
- Coordinates
- -33.00, -56.00
- Landlocked
- No
- Borders
- ARG, BRA
- Border countries count
- 2
Economy and identity
- Currencies
- Uruguayan peso ($)
- Top-level domain
- .uy
- FIFA code
- URU
- Capital coordinates
- -34.85, -56.17
- Postal code format
- #####
- Gini index
- 39.7 (2019)
- Coat of arms
