Uruguay - quick facts

Full name: República Oriental del Uruguay
Capital: Montevideo
Government: constitutional republic
Currency: Uruguayan peso (UYU)
Area total: 176,220 sq km
land: 173,620 sq km
water: 2,600 sq km
Population: 3,386,575 (July 2002 est.)
Language: Spanish (official), Portuñol, or Brasilero (Portuguese-Spanish mix on the Brazilian frontier)
Religion: Roman Catholic 66% (less than half of the adult population attends church regularly), Protestant 2%, Jewish 1%, nonprofessing or other 31%