Uruguay
Names and codes: GeoNames, CC BY 4.0 · Boundary: Natural Earth, public domain · Refresh date not recorded · Sources and licenses
Codes and identifiers
- ISO alpha-2
- UY
- ISO alpha-3
- URY
- ISO numeric
- 858
- FIPS 10-4
- UY
- GeoNames ID
- 3439705
Key facts
- Capital
- Montevideo
- Area
- 176,220 km²
- Population
- 3,449,299
- Currency
- Peso (UYU)
- Calling code
- +598
- Top-level domain
- .uy
- Official languages
- es-UY
Continent
- Name
- South America
- Code
- SA
- In this dataset
- 14 countries
Location
- Latitude
- -33
- Longitude
- -56
- Min latitude
- -34.97340260199991
- Min longitude
- -58.43936113199993
- Max latitude
- -30.096869811999937
- Max longitude
- -53.1108361419999
Boundary
The API call behind this page
Request
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
"https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/UY?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"Response
{
"data": {
"area_sq_km": 176220,
"capital": "Montevideo",
"continent_code": "SA",
"currency_code": "UYU",
"iso3_code": "URY",
"iso_code": "UY",
"name": "Uruguay",
"population": 3449299
}
}Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.
Other endpoints for this country
/v1/countries/UY/regions/v1/cities?country=UY/v1/postal-codes?country=UY/v1/timezones?country=UY
Name in other languages
- Arabic
- أورجواي
- Chinese
- 乌拉圭
- English
- Uruguay
- French
- Uruguay
- German
- Uruguay
- Hindi
- उरूग्वे
- Italian
- Uruguay
- Japanese
- ウルグアイ
- Korean
- 우루과이
- Portuguese
- Uruguai
- Russian
- Уругвай
- Spanish
- Uruguay
- Total language variants
- 137
The API returns any of them with ?lang=.
Time zones
| IANA ID | UTC offset | DST offset |
|---|---|---|
| America/Montevideo | UTC-03:00 | UTC-03:00 |
Postal code format
- Format
- #####
- Pattern
^(\d{5})$
First-level administrative regions
- Departamento de Montevideo
- Departamento de Canelones
- Departamento de Maldonado
- Departamento de Salto
- Departamento de Colonia
- Departamento de Paysandú
- Departamento de Rivera
- Departamento de San José
- Departamento de Tacuarembó
- Departamento de Cerro Largo
- Departamento de Soriano
- Departamento de Artigas
- Departamento de Florida
- Departamento de Rocha
- Departamento de Durazno
- Departamento de Lavalleja
- Departamento de Río Negro
- Departamento de Treinta y Tres
- Departamento de Flores
19 of 19 shown, largest first
Largest cities
| City | Population |
|---|---|
| Montevideo | 1,270,737 |
| Salto | 114,084 |
| Maldonado | 102,000 |
| Rivera | 84,775 |
| Paysandú | 81,550 |
| Las Piedras | 69,682 |
| Tacuarembó | 60,586 |
| Melo | 56,013 |
| Artigas | 43,897 |
| Mercedes | 43,543 |
Coverage in this dataset
- Cities
- 1,089
- First-level regions
- 19
- Postal codes
- 1,964
- Name languages
- 137
- Boundary polygon
- Yes
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