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Uruguay
Location marker · geographic overview
33° S / 56° WTHE WORLD, ONE COUNTRY AT A TIME
- Capital
- Montevideo
- Population
- 3,386,588 2024
- Area
- 181,034 km² (year unavailable)
- Languages source-listed
- Spanish
- Currency
- Uruguayan peso (UYU)
- Geography
- Coastal country
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Sources & limitations.
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FROM THE TRAVEL GUIDE · Uruguay
Uruguay is the second-smallest country in South America, wedged between two of the world's largest countries ― Argentina and Brazil.
Landscape & landmarks
While there are interesting things to see all over Uruguay, the main sights of interest are concentrated on the coastline. Perhaps unsurprisingly the largest concentration of things to see is the capital, Montevideo.Read the see section ↗
Excerpts from Wikivoyage contributors, revision 2026-08-19. CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected excerpts; wiki formatting removed; omissions marked […]. Guide wording and any figures belong to this dated source; they do not replace the atlas statistics above. Food descriptions are not official national-dish designations.
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- National flower
- Not yet verified
- Official national dish
- Not yet verified
- Representative food
- Not yet verified
- Subregion
- South America
- Calling code
- +598
- Internet domain
- .uy
- Land border codes
- ARG, BRA
Quick facts
- Traffic keeps to the right side of the road. Source ↗
- The country-code web domain is .uy. Source ↗
- The source lists monday as the start of the week. Source ↗
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Source-matched September 26, 2026; not live data. Sources & limitations.