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.
- »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.
Uruguay touches two neighbours: Argentina to the west and Brazil to the north. Directions run from one centre to the other.
Montevideo sits across the estuary from Buenos Aires and was founded by the Spanish specifically to block Portuguese expansion from Brazil.
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).
The Sun of May in the canton, the same emblem Argentina uses, with nine stripes for the nine original departments.