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Capital Uruguay : |
Montevideo .
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| Land Boudaries Border Country Uruguay :
| Argentina 579 km, Brazil 985 km .
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| Climate Uruguay :
| warm temperate; freezing temperatures almost unknown .
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| Life expectancy Uruguay :
| 75.92 years .
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| Fertility rate Uruguay :
| 1.96 children born/woman (2004 est.) .
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| Government type Uruguay :
| constitutional republic .
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| Population Uruguay :
| 3,399,237 (July 2004 est.) .
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| Area Total Uruguay :
| 176,220 sq km .
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| Telephones Main Lines In Use Uruguay :
| 946,500 (2002) .
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| Telephones Mobile Cellular Uruguay :
| 652,000 (2002) .
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| International Country Code Uruguay :
| 598.
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| Sex ratio total Uruguay :
| 0.95 male(s)/female (2004 est.) .
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| Sex Uruguay ratio under 15 :
| 1.04 male(s)/female .
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| Sex Uruguay ratio 15 64 :
| 0.98 male(s)/female .
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| Sex Uruguay ratio 65 :
| 0.69 male(s)/female .
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| Current account balance Uruguay :
| $76 million (2003) |
| HIV Uruguay :
| 0.3% (2001 est.) |
| Population below poverty line Uruguay :
| 23.7% (2002) |
| Literacy Uruguay :
| 98% |
| House hold income lowest than 10% Uruguay :
| 3,70% |
| House hold income highest than 10% Uruguay :
| 25.8% (1997) |
| Inflation Uruguay :
| 19.4% (2003 est.) |
| Unemployment Rate Uruguay :
| 16% (2003) |
| Internet Users Uruguay :
| 400,000 (2002) |
| Location Uruguay :
| Southern South America, bordering the South Atlantic Ocean, between Argentina and Brazil |
| Geographic Coordinates Uruguay :
| 33 00 S, 56 00 W |
| Religion Uruguay :
| Roman Catholic 66% (less than half of the adult population attends church regularly), Protestant 2%, Jewish 1%, nonprofessing or other 31% |
| Administrative region Uruguay :
| 19 departments (departamentos, singular - departamento); Artigas, Canelones, Cerro Largo, Colonia, Durazno, Flores, Florida, Lavalleja, Maldonado, Montevideo, Paysandu, Rio Negro, Rivera, Rocha, Salto, San Jose, Soriano, Tacuarembo, Treinta y Tres |
| Terrain Uruguay :
| mostly rolling plains and low hills; fertile coastal lowland |
| Elevation extremes lowest Uruguay :
| Atlantic Ocean 0 m |
| Elevation extremes highest Uruguay :
| Cerro Catedral 514 m |
| Natural resources Uruguay :
| arable land, hydropower, minor minerals, fisheries |
| Land use arable land Uruguay :
| 7,43% |
| Land use permanentcrops Uruguay :
| 0,23% |
| Irrigated land Uruguay :
| 1,800 sq km (1998 est.) |
| Natural hazards Uruguay :
| seasonally high winds (the pampero is a chilly and occasional violent wind which blows north from the Argentine pampas), droughts, floods; because of the absence of mountains, which act as weather barriers, all locations are particularly vulnerable to rapid changes from weather fronts |
| Environment current issues Uruguay :
| water pollution from meat packing/tannery industry; inadequate solid/hazardous waste disposal |
| Geography note Uruguay :
| second-smallest South American country (after Suriname); most of the low-lying landscape (three-quarters of the country) is grassland, ideal for cattle and sheep raising |
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