Uruguay
Uruguay is the second-smallest country in South America, wedged between Argentina and Brazil. The country is known for its colonial-era historic districts in Colonia and Montevideo, popular beaches on the Atlantic Coast, and beef production—a former meat processing plant in Fray Bentos is a world heritage site.Tap on the map to travel |
Popular Destinations
Montevideo
Photo: Ypsilon from Finland, CC0.
Montevideo is the capital city of Uruguay, on the east bank of the Rio de la Plata.
Colonia
Photo: Ypsilon from Finland, CC0.
Colonia del Sacramento is in southwestern Uruguay, across from Buenos Aires on the northern shore of the Rio de la Plata.
Salto
Photo: Claudia Garay, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Salto is in the citrus growing region of the Northern Interior of Uruguay, on the east bank of the Rio Uruguay.
Destinations
Rio de la Plata
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The part of Uruguay on the Rio de la Plata is much visited for its well-preserved historic sites, pretty colonial towns, and a fair share of beaches and farmland.
Central Interior
The central interior of Uruguay includes the departments of Cerro Largo, Durazno, Flores, Florida, Lavalleja and Treinta y Tres.Atlantic Coast
The Atlantic Coast of Uruguay consists of two departments, Maldonado and Rocha, both full of beaches.Uruguay
- Type: Country with 3,290,000 residents
- Description: sovereign state in South America
- Language: Spanish
- Neighbors: Argentina and Brazil
- Categories: sovereign state, secular state, republic and locality
- Location: South America
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Latitude of centre
-33° or 33° southLongitude of centre
-56° or 56° westPopulation
3,290,000Area
176,220 km² (68,039 miles²)Elevation
115 metres (377 feet)Capital
MontevideoCurrency
Peso (UYU)Phone code
.uyInternet domain
598OpenStreetMap ID
node 432425116OpenStreetMap Feature
place=countryGeoNames ID
3439705Wikidata ID
Q77Uruguay Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Urugway
- Achinese: Uruguay
- Afar: Urugvay
- Afrikaans: Uruguay
- Akan: Uruguay
- Akan: Yurugwae
- Albanian: Uruguai
- Albanian: Uruguaji
- Amharic: Uruguay
- Amharic: ኡሩጓይ
- Amharic: ኡራጓይ
- Amis: Uruguay
- Angika: उरुग्वे
- Arabic: Uruguay
- Arabic: أورجواي
- Arabic: أوروغواي
- Arabic: اروغواي
- Arabic: الأوروغواي
- Arabic: الجمهورية الشرقية للأوروغواي
- Arabic: جمهورية الأوروغواي الشرقية
- Aragonese: Uruguai
- Armenian: Ուրուգվայ
- Armenian: Ուրուկուէյ
- Arpitan: Urugoay
- Arpitan: Urugoayi
- Assamese: উৰুগুৱে
- Asturian: Uruguay
- Asturian: Uruguái
- Avaric: Uruguaya
- Awadhi: उरुग्वे
- Aymara: Uruwayi
- Azerbaijani: Uruqvay
- Balinese: Uruguay
- Bambara: Urugwayi
- Bashkir: Уругвай
- Basque: Uruguai
- Bavarian: Uruguay
- Belarusian: Уругвай
- Bengali: উরুগুয়ে
- Bengali: উরুগোয়ে
- Bhojpuri: उरुग्वे
- Bhojpuri: उरुग्वे गणराज्य
- Bhojpuri: उरुग्वे रिपब्लिक
- Bishnupriya: উরুগুয়ে
- Bislama: Ripablik blong Iskos blong Reva blong Urugwae
- Bislama: Ripablik blong Iskos blong Reva blong Yurugwae
- Bislama: Uruguay
- Bislama: Urugwae
- Bislama: Yurugwae
- Bosnian: Urugvaj
- Breton: Uruguay
- Bulgarian: Република Уругвай
- Bulgarian: Уругвай
- Burmese: ဥရုဂွေး
- Burmese: ဥရုဂွေးနိုင်ငံ
- Catalan: Uruguai
- Cebuano: Uruguay
- Central Bikol: Uruguay
- Central Kurdish: ئوروگوای
- Chavacano: Uruguay
- Chechen: Уругвай
- Cheyenne: Uruguay
- Chinese: Uruguay
- Chinese: 乌拉圭 / 烏拉圭
- Chinese: 乌拉圭
- Chinese: 乌拉圭东岸共和国
- Chinese: 烏拉圭
- Chinese: 烏拉圭東岸共和國
- Church Slavic: Оуроугваи
- Chuvash: Уругвай
- Cornish: Urugway
- Corsican: Uruguai
- Corsican: Uruguay
- Crimean Tatar: Urugvay
- Croatian: Urugvaj
- Czech: Uruguay
- Dagbani: Uruguay
- Danish: Uruguay
- Dhivehi: އުރުގުއޭ
- Dimli (individual language): Uruguay
- Dotyali: उरुग्वे
- Dutch: URY
- Dutch: UY
- Dutch: Uruguay
- Dzongkha: ཡུ་རུ་གུ་ཝའི
- Eastern Mari: Уругвай
- Egyptian Arabic: اوروجواى
- English: Oriental Republic of Uruguay
- English: República Oriental del Uruguay
- English: URU
- English: uy
- Esperanto: Orienta Respubliko Urugvajo
- Esperanto: UY
- Esperanto: Urugvajo
- Estonian: Uruguay
- Estonian: Uruguay Idavabariik
- Ewe: Uruguay
- Ewe: uruguaydukɔ
- Extremaduran: Uruguai
- Faroese: Uruguai
- Faroese: Uruguei
- Fiji Hindi: Uruguay
- Fijian: Uruguay
- Finnish: Uruguay
- Finnish: Uruguayn itäinen tasavalta
- French: UY
- French: Uruguay
- French: la République orientale de l’Uruguay
- Fulah: Uruguwaay
- Gagauz: Urugvay
- Galician: O Uruguai
- Galician: Uruguai - Uruguay
- Galician: Uruguai
- Ganda: Uruguay
- Ganda: Wurugwayi
- Georgian: ურუგვაი
- German: Republik Östlich des Uruguay
- German: República Oriental del Uruguay
- German: Uruguay
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Uruguay
- Goan Konkani: Uruguay
- Goan Konkani: उरुग्वे
- Gothic: 𐌿𐍂𐌿𐌰𐌷𐍅𐌰
- Greek: Ανατολική Δημοκρατία της Ουρουγουάης
- Greek: Ουρουγουάη
- Guarani: Uruguái
- Guianese Creole French: Lourougwé
- Gujarati: ઉરુગ્વે
- Haitian: Irigwe
- Hakka Chinese: Uruguay
- Hausa: Uruguay
- Hausa: Yurigwai
- Hebrew: אורגוואי
- Hebrew: אורוגואי
- Hebrew: אורוגוואי
- Hindi: उरुग्वे
- Hindi: उरूग्वे
- Hindi: युरूगुए
- Hungarian: Uruguay
- Icelandic: Úrúgvæ
- Ido: Uruguay
- Igbo: Uruguay
- Iloko: Uruguay
- Inari Sami: Uruguay
- Inari Sami: Uruguay täsiväldi
- Indonesian: Uruguay
- Interlingua: Uruguay
- Interlingue: Uruguay
- Irish: Uragua
- Irish: Urugua
- Italian: URY
- Italian: Uruguay
- Jamaican Creole English: Yurugwai
- Japanese: ウルグァイ
- Japanese: ウルグアイ
- Japanese: ウルグアイ共和国
- Japanese: ウルグアイ東方共和国
- Javanese: Uruguay
- Kabiyè: Uruguwe
- Kabyle: Urugway
- Kalaallisut: Uruguay
- Kalmyk: Уругаймудин Орн
- Kannada: ಉರುಗ್ವೆ
- Kannada: ಉರುಗ್ವೇ
- Kara-Kalpak: Urugvay
- Kashmiri: یوٗروگے
- Kazakh: Уругвай
- Khmer: អ៊ុយរូហ្គាយ
- Kikuyu: Urugwai
- Kinaray-A: Orogway
- Kinaray-A: Urugway
- Kinyarwanda: Irigwe
- Kirghiz: Уругвай
- Kongo: Urugway
- Korean: 우루과이
- Kotava: Uruguaya
- Kurdish: Ûrûguay
- Kurdish: ئوروگوای
- Ladin: Uruguay
- Ladino: Uruguay
- Lao: Uruguay
- Lao: ປະເທດອຸຣຸກວັຍ
- Lao: ປະເທດອູຣູກວາຍ
- Lao: ອູຣຸກວຍ
- Latgalian: Urugvajs
- Latin: Uraquaria
- Latvian: Urugvaja
- Lezghian: Уругвай
- Ligurian: Uruguay
- Limburgan: Uruguay
- Lingala: Irigwei
- Lingala: Ulugwai
- Lingua Franca Nova: Uruguai
- Literary Chinese: 烏拉圭
- Lithuanian: Urugvajus
- Livvi: Urugvai
- Lojban: uruguais
- Lombard: Uruguay
- Low German: Uruguay
- Lower Sorbian: Uruguay
- Luba-Katanga: Irigwei
- Luxembourgish: Uruguay
- Macedonian: Уругвај
- Madurese: Uruguay
- Maithili: उरुग्वे
- Malagasy: Orogoay
- Malagasy: Uruguay
- Malay: Uruguay
- Malayalam: ഉറുഗ്വേ
- Maltese: Repubblika Orjentali tal-Urugwaj
- Maltese: Urugwaj
- Maltese: l-Urugwaj
- Manipuri: ꯎꯔꯨꯒ꯭ꯋꯦ
- Manx: Yn Ooraguay
- Maori: Urukoi
- Maori: Urukuai
- Marathi: उरुग्वे
- Mazanderani: اروگوئه
- Min Dong Chinese: Uruguay
- Min Nan Chinese: Uruguay
- Minangkabau: Uruguay
- Mingrelian: ურუგვაი
- Moksha: Уругвай
- Mongolian: Уругвай
- Mongolian: ꯎꯔꯨꯒ꯭ꯋꯦ
- Moroccan Arabic: ؤروڭواي
- Neapolitan: Uruguay
- Nepali: उरुग्वे
- Nepali: उरूग्वे
- Newari: उरुग्वे
- North Ndebele: Yurugwai
- Northern Frisian: Uruguay
- Northern Luri: اوروگوئه
- Northern Sami: Uruguay
- Northern Sami: Uruguay dásseváldi
- Norwegian: Uruguay
- Norwegian Bokmål: Republikken øst for Uruguay
- Norwegian Bokmål: Uruguay
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Uruguay
- Novial: Uruguay
- Occitan (post 1500): Uruguai
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Uruguay
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Uruquaria
- Oriya: ଉରୁଗୁଏ
- Oromo: Uraaguwaay
- Ossetian: Уругвай
- Pali: उरुग्वाय
- Pampanga: Uruguay
- Pangasinan: Uruguay
- Panjabi: ਉਰੂਗਵੇ
- Panjabi: ਉਰੂਗੁਏ
- Papiamento: Uruguai
- Papiamento: Uruguay
- Pennsylvania German: Uruguay
- Persian: اروگوئه
- Persian: اروگوای
- Persian: اوروگوئه
- Picard: Uruguay
- Piemontese: Uruguay
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Uruguay
- Polish: Urugwaj
- Portuguese: República Oriental do Uruguai
- Portuguese: Uruguai
- Pushto: يوراګوای
- Pushto: یوروګوی
- Quechua: Uruguay
- Quechua: Uruwayi
- Romanian: Uruguay
- Romansh: Uruguay
- Rundi: Irigwe
- Rundi: Uruguay
- Russia Buriat: Уругвай
- Russian: Восточная Республика Уругвай
- Russian: Уругвай
- Rusyn: Уругвай
- Sakizaya: Uruguay
- Samoan: Iurukuei
- Samogitian: Urugvajos
- Sango: Uruguëe
- Sanskrit: उरुग्वाय
- Sardinian: Uruguay
- Saterfriesisch: Uruguay
- Scots: Uruguay
- Scottish Gaelic: Uruguaidh
- Serbian: Urugvaj
- Serbian: Уругвај
- Serbo-Croatian: Urugvaj
- Shan: မိူင်းဢုရုၵူၺ်း
- Shona: Uruguay
- Sicilian: Uruguai
- Silesian: Urugwaj
- Sindhi: يوراگوائي
- Sindhi: يوروگوءِ
- Sinhala: උරුගුවායි
- Sinhala: උරුගුවේ
- Skolt Sami: Uruguay
- Skolt Sami: Uruguay nuõrtt tääʹssväʹldd
- Slovak: Uruguaj
- Slovak: Uruguajská východná republika
- Slovenian: Urugvaj
- Somali: Uruguay
- Somali: Uruguwaay
- South Azerbaijani: اوروقوئه
- South Azerbaijani: اوروگوئه
- Spanish: República Oriental de Uruguay
- Spanish: República Oriental del Uruguay
- Spanish: Uruguay
- Sundanese: Uruguay
- Swahili: Uruguay
- Swahili: Urugwai
- Swedish: Republiken Uruguay
- Swedish: Uruguay
- Swiss German: Uruguay
- Sylheti: ꠃꠞꠃ
- Sylheti: ꠃꠞꠥꠉꠥꠄ
- Tagalog: Uruguay
- Tajik: Уругвай
- Tajik: Уругуай
- Tamil: உருகுவே
- Tamil: உருகுவை
- Taroko: Uruguay
- Tatar: Уругвай
- Telugu: ఉరుగ్వే
- Telugu: ఉరూగ్వే
- Tetum: Uruguai
- Thai: ประเทศอุรุกวัย
- Thai: อุรุกวัย
- Tibetan: ཨུ་རུ་གུ་ཡེ།
- Tibetan: ཨུ་རུ་གྷེ།
- Tigrinya: URY
- Tigrinya: UY
- Tigrinya: ምብራቓዊት ሪፓብሊክ ኡራጓይ
- Tigrinya: ኡሩጓይ
- Tigrinya: ኡራጓይ
- Tok Pisin: Yuruguwai
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): ʻUlukuai
- Tosk Albanian: Uruguay
- Tumbuka: Uruguay
- Tunisian Arabic: الأوروڨواي
- Turkish: República Oriental del Uruguay
- Turkish: URY
- Turkish: Uruguay
- Turkish: uy
- Turkmen: Urugwaý
- Tyap: Urugwai
- Udmurt: Уругвай
- Uighur: ئۇرۇگۋاي
- Ukrainian: Уругвай
- Ukrainian: Уруґвай
- Upper Sorbian: Uruguay
- Urdu: یوراگوئے
- Urdu: یوروگوئے
- Uzbek: Urugvay
- Venetian: Uruguai
- Veps: Päivnouzmaižen Urugvain Tazovaldkund
- Veps: Urugvai
- Vietnamese: U-ru-goay (Uruguay)
- Vietnamese: U-ru-goay
- Vietnamese: Uruguay
- Vlaams: Uruguay
- Vlax Romani: Uruguay
- Volapük: Luruguyän
- Võro: Uruguay
- Walloon: Ourougway
- Waray (Philippines): Uruguay
- Wayuu: Uruwai
- Welsh: Gweriniaeth Wrwgwái
- Welsh: Uruguay
- Welsh: Wrwgwai
- Welsh: Wrwgwái
- Western Armenian: Ուրուկուէյ
- Western Frisian: Oerûguay
- Western Frisian: Uruguay
- Western Frisian: Urûguay
- Western Mari: Уругвай
- Western Panjabi: یوراگوۓ
- Wolof: Uruge
- Wolof: Uruguwaay
- Wu Chinese: 乌拉圭
- Xhosa: Uruguwayi
- Yakut: Уругуай
- Yiddish: אורוגוויי
- Yoruba: Nruguayi
- Yoruba: Uruguay
- Yoruba: Urugúáì
- Yue Chinese: 烏拉圭
- Zeeuws: Uruguay
- Zhuang: Uruguay
- Zhuang: Vuhlahgveih
- Zulu: i-Uruguay
- Banda Oriental
- Republica del Uruguay
- ma Ulukawi
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