Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Montevideo
- Region
- Americas, South America
- Population
- 3,384,688 (2025)
- Area
- 176,220 km²
- Currency
- Uruguayan peso (UYU)
- Languages
- Spanish
- Calling code
- +598
- Internet domain
- .uy
- ISO codes
- UY, URY, 858
- Time zone
- UTC-3:00
- United Nations
- Member state
- Postal code pattern
- ##### (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
Uruguay covers about 176,220 square kilometres. By area it ranks 92nd among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Cambodia and a little larger than Tunisia. It shares a land border with 2 neighbours: Argentina, Brazil. Its centre lies at about 33° south, 56° west, in the southern hemisphere.
Neighbours
People
About 3.38 million people live in Uruguay (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 134th most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure. On average there are 19 people to each square kilometre. About 96 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 78 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: Spanish. A person from Uruguay is called Uruguayan.
Money and economy
The currency is the Uruguayan peso (code UYU, symbol $). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 85.3 billion (2025), which is about US$ 25,216 for each person (2025).
Time
Uruguay uses one time zone, UTC-3:00 (America/Montevideo). Clocks stay the same all year: there is no daylight saving time.
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Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Montevideo | 1,270,737 |
| Salto | 114,084 |
| Maldonado | 102,000 |
| Rivera | 84,775 |
| Paysandú | 81,550 |
| Las Piedras | 69,682 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in South America
Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Falkland Islands, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.