Map of Uruguay

Uruguay is located in South America. Its territory lies in the southern and western hemispheres, centred near 33.0° S, 56.0° W. It shares land borders with 2 countries — Argentina and Brazil — and also has its own coastline. Within South America, a continent of 12 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, Uruguay is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Uruguay shares land frontiers with the following 2 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Uruguay covers about 181,034 km² (69,898 sq mi). That makes it the 89th-largest country in the world by area and the 11th-largest in South America, larger by area than 1 of the continent’s 12 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 3,499,451, the 133rd-largest in the world and the 10th-largest in South America, accounting for about 0.8% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Uruguay has an average population density of about 19 people per km². Among the 12 countries of South America it stands 10th by population and 11th by area.

The seat of government is Montevideo, and the official currency is the Uruguayan peso (UYU, $), and the main official language is Spanish. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC-03:00.

Uruguay carries the ISO country codes UY and URY, dials on the international calling code +598 and uses the .uy internet domain.

Uruguay shares its land borders with 2 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Brazil (capital Brasília, about 213,421,037 people) and Argentina (capital Buenos Aires, about 46,735,004 people).

By area, Uruguay is larger than 0 of these neighbours and smaller than 2 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 33.0° S, 56.0° W and opens at zoom level 6, framing Uruguay within South America. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Montevideo. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Uruguay lies about 3,663 km from the equator, in the southern and western hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Uruguay keeps a single standard time zone, UTC-03:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit -03:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Uruguayan peso (UYU, $).

The official language is Spanish, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +598 and websites commonly use the .uy internet domain.

In short, Uruguay is a coastal country in South America, sharing land borders with 2 countries. Its capital is Montevideo. Uruguay has a population of about 3,499,451 and covers around 181,034 km² (69,898 sq mi), ranking it 133rd in the world by population and 89th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Uruguay.

The flag of Uruguay is composed of nine equal horizontal bands of white alternating with blue, with a white square superimposed in the canton. In the white square is a yellow sun bearing a human face — the Sun of May — from which sixteen rays extend. The sun's rays alternate between triangular and wavy.

The flag of Uruguay is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.