Uruguay

Oriental Republic of Uruguay
Oriental Republic of Uruguay; República Oriental del Uruguay (Spanish)
Mbendela	Chidindo cha Boma
	Chiluso: Libertad o Muerte; "Freedom or Death"
	Nyimbo: Himno Nacional de Uruguay; "National Anthem of Uruguay"
	Sol de Mayo; (Sun of May);
	Makhalilo gha Uruguay (dark green) in South America Makhalilo gha Uruguay (dark green) in South America
Msumba Waboma; kweneso Msumba Usani	Montevideo
Official language	Spanish; Uruguayan Sign Language;
Mitundu ya Ŵanthu (2011)	87.7% White ; 4.6% Black ; 2.4% Indigenous ; 0.2% East Asian ; 5.1% Other / Unspecified ;
Vipembezo	54.3% Christianity ; —44.8% Roman Catholic ; —9.5% Other Christian ; 44.5% No religion ; 1.2% Other / Unspecified ;
Mwenecharu	Uruguayan
Mtundu wa Boma	Unitary presidential republic
Independence from Brazil
Ukulu wa Malo
Chiŵelengelo cha ŵanthu
GDP (PPP)	2022 estimate
GDP (nominal)	2022 estimate
Gini (2019)	39.7; medium
HDI (2021)	0.809; very high ·58th
Ndalama	Uruguayan peso (UYU)
Mtundu Wanyengo	UYT (UTC−3)
Kalembelo kasiku	dd/mm/yyyy
Woko la galimoto	right
Intaneti yacharu	.uy

Uruguay ntchalo icho chili kummwera kwa Amerika.

[1]
Crow, John A. (1992). The Epic of Latin America (4th ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 457. ISBN 978-0-520-07723-2. In the meantime, while the crowd assembled in the plaza continued to shout its demands at the cabildo, the sun suddenly broke through the overhanging clouds and clothed the scene in brilliant light. The people looked upward with one accord and took it as a favorable omen for their cause. This was the origin of the ″sun of May″ which has appeared in the center of the Argentine flag and on the Argentine coat of arms ever since.
[2]
Kopka, Deborah (2011). Central & South America. Dayton, OH: Lorenz Educational Press. p. 5. ISBN 978-1-4291-2251-1. The sun's features are those of Inti, the Incan sun god. The sun commemorates the appearance of the sun through cloudy skies on May 25, 1810, during the first mass demonstration in favor of independence.
[3]
"Ley N° 17378" [Law #17378]. Law of Error: the date or year parameters are either empty or in an invalid format, please use a valid year for year, and use DMY, MDY, MY, or Y date formats for date (in Spanish).
[4]
Meyers, Stephen; Lockwood, Elizabeth (2014-12-06). "The Tale of Two Civil Societies: Comparing disability rights movements in Nicaragua and Uruguay". Disability Studies Quarterly (in English). 34 (4). doi:10.18061/dsq.v34i4.3845. ISSN 2159-8371.
[5]
"Uruguay". The World Factbook (2025 ed.). Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved 24 September 2022. (Archived 2022 edition)
[6]
"World Economic Outlook Database, October 2022". IMF.org. International Monetary Fund. October 2022. Retrieved November 25, 2022.
[7]
"GINI index". World Bank. Retrieved 12 August 2021.
[8]
"Human Development Report 2021/2022" (PDF) (in English). United Nations Development Programme. 8 September 2022. Retrieved 8 September 2022.

It has de facto status
It has de jure status as of 2001^[3]^[4]

[N 1]
The official racial term on the Uruguayan census is "amarilla" or "yellow" in English, which refers to people of East Asian descent.

Quick Facts Oriental Republic of Uruguay República Oriental del Uruguay (Spanish), Official language ...

[1] [1]
Crow, John A. (1992). The Epic of Latin America (4th ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 457. ISBN 978-0-520-07723-2. In the meantime, while the crowd assembled in the plaza continued to shout its demands at the cabildo, the sun suddenly broke through the overhanging clouds and clothed the scene in brilliant light. The people looked upward with one accord and took it as a favorable omen for their cause. This was the origin of the ″sun of May″ which has appeared in the center of the Argentine flag and on the Argentine coat of arms ever since.

[2] [2]
Kopka, Deborah (2011). Central & South America. Dayton, OH: Lorenz Educational Press. p. 5. ISBN 978-1-4291-2251-1. The sun's features are those of Inti, the Incan sun god. The sun commemorates the appearance of the sun through cloudy skies on May 25, 1810, during the first mass demonstration in favor of independence.

[4] [3]
"Ley N° 17378" [Law #17378]. Law of Error: the date or year parameters are either empty or in an invalid format, please use a valid year for year, and use DMY, MDY, MY, or Y date formats for date (in Spanish).

[LSU-5] [4]
Meyers, Stephen; Lockwood, Elizabeth (2014-12-06). "The Tale of Two Civil Societies: Comparing disability rights movements in Nicaragua and Uruguay". Disability Studies Quarterly (in English). 34 (4). doi:10.18061/dsq.v34i4.3845. ISSN 2159-8371.

[8] [5]
"Uruguay". The World Factbook (2025 ed.). Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved 24 September 2022. (Archived 2022 edition)

[imf2-9] [6]
"World Economic Outlook Database, October 2022". IMF.org. International Monetary Fund. October 2022. Retrieved November 25, 2022.

[gini-index-10] [7]
"GINI index". World Bank. Retrieved 12 August 2021.

[HDI-11] [8]
"Human Development Report 2021/2022" (PDF) (in English). United Nations Development Programme. 8 September 2022. Retrieved 8 September 2022.

[3] It has de facto status

[6] It has de jure status as of 2001^[3]^[4]

[note-7] [N 1]
The official racial term on the Uruguayan census is "amarilla" or "yellow" in English, which refers to people of East Asian descent.

[3]

[4]

[1]

[2]

[lower-alpha 1]

[lower-alpha 2]

[note 1]

[5]

[6]

[7]

[8]