Country ChooserCountry InformationUruguay![]() Standards
Road Traffic:right side
Electricity:
Voltage:220V
Frequency:50 Hz
Plug types:C, F, I, L,
Note:Type
TV Systems:
System:PAL N
DVD-Region: 4
Geography
Bordering countries:
Location:
Southern South America, bordering the South Atlantic Ocean, between Argentina and Brazil
Area:
total: 176,220 sq km
land: 173,620 sq km
water: 2,600 sq km
Climate:
warm temperate; freezing temperatures almost unknown
Terrain:
mostly rolling plains and low hills; fertile coastal lowland
Economy
GDP: $32.96 billion (2005 est.)
GDP growth rate: 6.5% (2005 est.)
GDP per capita: $9,600 (2005 est.)
Inflation rate: 4.7% (2005 est.)
Currency: Uruguayan peso (UYU)
Exchange rates:
Uruguayan pesos per US dollar - 24.479 (2005), 28.704 (2004), 28.209 (2003), 21.257 (2002), 13.319 (2001)
People
Population: 3,431,932 (July 2006 est.)
Growth rate: 0.46% (2006 est.)
Religions:
Roman Catholic 66% (less than half of the adult population attends church regularly), Protestant 2%, Jewish 1%, nonprofessing or other 31%
Languages:
Spanish, Portunol, or Brazilero (Portuguese-Spanish mix on the Brazilian frontier)
Government
Capital:
name: Montevideo
time difference: UTC-3 (2 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins second Sunday in October; ends second Sunday in March
Independence:
25 August 1825 (from Brazil)
Note: Information on Uruguay was mainly sourced from CIA's World Factbook and may represent an American point of view. To learn more about Uruguay, please visit one of the links below.
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