Uruguay
Uruguay (officially Oriental Republic of Uruguay) is a country in South America, with its capital at Montevideo, and is home to roughly 3.4M people.
Spanish is the official language; the currency in circulation is Uruguayan peso ($); people from here are called Uruguayan.
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- »Uruguay was the first country to fully legalise cannabis nationally.
- »It generates nearly all its electricity from renewable sources.
- »It hosted and won the first football World Cup, in 1930.
> BORDERS_
Uruguay touches two neighbours: Argentina to the west and Brazil to the north. Directions run from one centre to the other.
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Montevideo sits across the estuary from Buenos Aires and was founded by the Spanish specifically to block Portuguese expansion from Brazil.
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177,774 km² (68,639 sq mi), 89th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Cambodia.
Population 3,386,588, 133rd of 198 on file. That averages 19 per km² (49 per sq mi).
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The Sun of May in the canton, the same emblem Argentina uses, with nine stripes for the nine original departments.