Uruguay ntchalo icho chili kummwera kwa Amerika.

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[1][2]
(Sun of May)

Sol de Mayo
Makhalilo gha  Uruguay  (dark green) in South America
Makhalilo gha  Uruguay  (dark green)

in South America

Makhalilo gha  Uruguay  (dark green)

in South America

Msumba Waboma
kweneso Msumba Usani
Montevideo
Official language
Mitundu ya Ŵanthu (2011)
Vipembezo
Mwenecharu Uruguayan
Mtundu wa Boma Unitary presidential republic
 -  President Luis Lacalle Pou
 -  Vice President Beatriz Argimón
 -  Upper house Senate
 -  Lower house Chamber of Representatives
Independence from Brazil
 -  Declared 25 August 1825 
 -  Recognized 27 August 1828 
 -  Current constitution 15 February 1967 
Ukulu wa Malo
 -  Malo 181,034 km2 (89th)
68,037 sq mi
 -  Maji (%) 1.5
Chiŵelengelo cha ŵanthu
 -  2022 estimate 3,407,213[5] (132nd)
 -  Density 19.8/km2 (206th)
48.3/sq mi
GDP (PPP) 2022 estimate
 -  Total Increase $96.810 billion[6] (98th)
 -  Per capita Increase $27,233[6] (62nd)
GDP (nominal) 2022 estimate
 -  Total Increase $71.161 billion[6] (80th)
 -  Per capita Increase $20,018[6] (49th)
Gini (2019)Negative increase 39.7[7]
medium
HDI (2021)Increase 0.809[8]
very high ·58th
Ndalama Uruguayan peso (UYU)
Mtundu Wanyengo UYT (UTC−3)
Kalembelo kasiku dd/mm/yyyy
Woko la galimoto right
Intaneti yacharu .uy
  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 (2024 ed.). Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved 24 September 2022. (Archived 2022 edition)
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 "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.


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