Place:Uruguay

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Place Information
Name
Uruguay
Alternate names
Eastern Republic of Uruguay     (Wikipedia)
La Banda Oriental     (Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) p 677-678)
Oriental Republic of Uruguay     (Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) p 677-678; NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998))
República Oriental del Uruguay     (Britannica Book of the Year (1991) p 729; Britannica Book of the Year (1993) p 745)
República Oriental del Uruguay     (Wikipedia)
Uruguai     (Rand McNally Atlas (1989) p 344)
Type
Country
Coordinates
34.183°S 58.25°W
Contained Places

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Department
Artigas
Canelones
Cerro Largo
Colonia
Durazno
Flores
Florida
Lavalleja
Maldonado
Paysandú
Rivera
Rocha
Río Negro
Salto
San José
Soriano
Tacuarembó
Trienta y Tres
Inhabited place
Montevideo
Treinta y Tres
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source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog
the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

Uruguay, officially the Eastern Republic of Uruguay or the Republic East of the Uruguay (River) (; pron. ), is a nation located in the southeastern part of South America. Of the mere 3 million people who inhabit the country, 1.7 million live in Montevideo. It is bordered by Brazil to the northeast, the Uruguay River to the west, the estuary of the Río de la Plata (literally "River of the Silver", but commonly known in English as "River Plate") to the southwest, with Argentina on the other bank of both, and finally the South Atlantic Ocean to the southeast. It is is the second smallest independent country in South America, larger only than Suriname -it is also larger than French Guiana, which is an overseas department of France-. According to Transparency International, it is the second least corrupt country in Latin America (after Chile).

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