Country's codes
International phone code for Uruguay: +598
Standard EAN-13 (country barcode): 773
Olympic country code: URU
Useful country information
Land area: 67,035 sq mi (173,621 sq km); total area: 68,039 sq mi (176,220 sq km)
Population (2022 est.): 3.485 million
Capital and largest city (2022 est.): Montevideo, 1,760,000
Montevideo: Capital City Profile
Monetary unit: Uruguay peso
Oriental Republic of Uruguay
National name: Repblica Oriental del Uruguay
Languages: Spanish, Portunol, or Brazilero
Ethnicity/race: white 88%, mestizo 8%, black 4%
Religions: Roman Catholic 47.1%, Protestant 11.1%, Jewish 0.3%
Background:
Uruguay is famous for its beaches, good cultivatable lands and and brilliant soccer players. It is known as one of the most progressive nations on the continent.
Uruguay economic is based on agricultural sector, exporting products such as meat, grains, dairy wood, pharmaceuticals, and services.
A violent Marxist urban guerrilla movement, the Tupamaros, launched in the late 1960s, led Uruguay's president to agree to military control of his administration in 1973. By the end of the year the rebels had been crushed, but the military continued to expand its hold throughout the government. Civilian rule was not restored until 1985. Uruguay's political and labor conditions are among the freest on the continent.
(Source: CIA - The World Factbook)
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