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Uruguay
Uruguay is a country in the southeastern part of South America. Its capital is Montevideo and it is the second smallest country in South America with a total land area of 176,000 square kilometers.
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How many forever stamps are needed to mail a letter to Uruguay?
Depends on where you are sending it from!
It costs 98 cents from the US in the year 2010.
What does the symbols of the Uruguayan emblem mean?
- The stripes mean the nine provinces at the time of liberation.
- White - peace and honesty
- Blue - the sky and blue coastal water - vigilance, truth and loyalty, perseverance & justice
What is the religion of Uruguay?
Uruguay is in South America, a continent which is predominantly Catholic, although other religions, particularly evangelical Protestantism, have also established themselves there.
Uruguay is a Latin American country. It keeps no religious statistics. In an independent survey, about half of the people were Roman Catholic. A quarter of the population were Pentecostals, Protestants, and other Christians. There were a few in other religions but most of the rest had no religion. (Sometimes such surveys include Pentecostals with other Protestants, sometimes they separate them. In Latin America Pentecostals usually outnumber other Protestants by about a 4 to 1 ratio.)
When does Uruguay celebrate it's Independence Day?
Uruguay successfully defeated the Spanish colonial forces on May 18, 1811. However, the country was claimed in part by Brazil, which was in the process of declaring its own independence from Portugal (1822).
Uruguayans declared independence from the Empire of Brazil on August 25, 1825, and received military aid from Argentina. Brazil and Argentina signed the Treaty of Montevideo in 1828 establishing the Republic of Uruguay.
How long is the longest river in Uruguay?
The Uruguay River ("Río Uruguay" in Spanish) is the longest river in Uruguay. It has 1,770 kilometers (approx. 1100 miles) of length. It separates the country from its neighboring country Argentina and it's from where Uruguay takes its name.
What country is directly WEST of Uruguay?
Brazil is to the north and northeast of Uruguay, so from some northern parts of Uruguay travelling east would bring you Brazil. To the east of most of Uruguay is the Atlantic Ocean. If you kept going east you would pass south of South Africa and on towards Australia.
Does Uruguay border the Atlantic or the Pacific Ocean?
Uruguay is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean.
it borders only the atlantic ocean
What is people from Uruguay called?
In English: Uruguayan, in Spanish: Uruguayo if it's male, Uruguaya if it's female.
Also there's another former name for Uruguayans in Spanish: Oriental (female and male indistinctively).
Who is the best player in Uruguay team?
The captain of Uruguay was José Nasazzi Yarza (24 May 1901 in Montevideo - 17 June 1968), Uruguayan footballer. He had won the gold medal in the Olympic Games of 1924 and 1928 with the Uruguayan Football Team. He retired in 1937.
The Uruguayan professional football club "Club Atlético Bella Vista" stadium is named after him.
What type of vegetation in Uruguay?
Mostly an agricultural country, wool as one of their main exports. Many different types of crops
The clothes people wear in Uruguay do not deffer much from the clothers people wear in other countries such as: Argentina, USA, UK... Uruguayans wear jeans, skirts & dresses (for women or girls), T-Shirts... blablabla...
Colonia del Sacramento is a famous place in Uruguay. It is a beautifully preserved colonail town that was actually originally founded by the Portugese. Today it is protected as a world heritage site by UNESCO.
Uruguay has a template climate so in summer the temperature may rise up to 36° C and in winter temperatures can be as low as 0° C or maybe a little less. Temperatures in the same are in average around 25° C.
Where are the major cities of Uruguay?
The capital city of Uruguay is Montevideo. More than half the people of Uruguay live in the Montevideo metropolitan area. No other city has even one tenth the population of the capital. The next largest cities are Salto, Ciudad de la Costa, and Paysandú.
176215 square kilomiters.. which are in square miles: 109450 if my math isn't wrong: 1mile - 1.61 km 176215 * 1 / 1.61 = 109450
What countries and bodies of water border Switzerland?
Lake Geneva is the main body of water in Switzerland. Lake Geneva is beautiful and can be seen from many tourist attractions throughout Switzerland. The lake is surrounded on one side by a snow capped mountain.
People in Uruguay usually make products and sell them, or sometimes people work in common bakerys or shops or anything like that.
The word Uruguay, coming from the Guarani language, means "river where the painted birds live". The country has its name because of the river that limits it from Argentina (Uruguay River).
What is the size of Uruguay compared to the us?
Yes. Uruguay is some 176,215sqkm whilst Oklahoma is slightly larger at 181,195 sqkm
What primary language is spoken in Uruguay?
The 1 official language of Uruguay is Spanish, spoken by virtually everyone. Uruguay is very monolingual.
In the northern parts of Uruguay they speak Portuñol (also called Brasiliero), which is a mix of Spanish and Portuguese.
Uruguayan Sign Language is the deaf sign language of Uruguay, used since 1910. It is not intelligible with neighboring languages.
Here is a list of 10 minority immigrant languages spoken in Uruguay, but these languages have no political or social recognition, and are only spoken by very small minorities:
- Catalan-Valencian-Balear
- Corsican
- Eastern Yiddish
- Hunsriker
- Italian
- Lithuanian
- Plautdietsch
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Standard German
English is the most widely taught foreign language, but not very many people are fluent in it.
What bodies of water touch Uruguay?
The most important and largest river in Uruguay is the Uruguay River that separates Uruguay from Argentina. Also the "Río Negro" (Black River) that crosses Uruguay from east to west in the middle and the estuary "Río de la Plata" in the south (outside though) of the country. An important lake would be the "Laguna Merín" (Merín Lagoon) in the south west of the country which borders with Brazil also.
What is the capital of Uruguay?
Uruguay's capital is Montevideo, its located on the south of the country. It has around 1 million inhabitants (the most populated city in the country) and it limits with the estuary Río de la Plata.
