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Montevideo (/ ˌ m ɒ n t ɪ v ɪ ˈ d eɪ oʊ /, [10] US also /-ˈ v ɪ d i oʊ /; [11] Spanish: [monteβiˈðeo]) is the capital and largest city of Uruguay.According to the 2023 census, the city proper has a population of 1,302,954 (about 37.2% of the country's total population) [12] in an area of 201 square kilometers (78 sq mi).
Metropolitan Montevideo, with about one and a half million inhabitants, is the capital and largest city. The rest of the urban population lives in about 20 towns. Montevideo is about 200 kilometers (120 mi) away from Buenos Aires in neighboring Argentina. Uruguay is distinguished by its high literacy rate (97.3%) and a large urban middle class.
Greater Montevideo is the most important region of the country in economic and sociocultural terms, having the highest population density. [2] It produces 65% of the national GDP, 60% of the manufacturing industry and 80% of the services. [3] Since the 1990s, telephone numbers in the area have had the same prefix, 2. [4]
Metropolitan Montevideo is the only large city, with around 1.9 million inhabitants, or more than half the country's total population. The rest of the urban population lives in about 30 towns. [ 32 ] Uruguay's rate of population growth is much lower than in other Latin American countries. [ 26 ]
The list of cities in Uruguay is a list of all populated centres of Uruguay that have received the status of "Ciudad" (City). There are several populated places that have not received this status, with a population below 10,000 but as big as that of many cities.
This is a list of any populated place in Uruguay by department, sortable by population (according to the 2011 census) or alphabetically. The population number may be followed by a letter indicating the official status of the place as follows:
Montevideo, the capital and major port, sits on the banks of the Río de la Plata and is on approximately the same latitude as Cape Town and Sydney. [1] Uruguay is the smallest Spanish-speaking nation in South America with a land area of 175,015 km 2 (67,574 sq mi) and a water area of 1,200 km 2 (463 sq mi).
The population of Argentina, Chile and Uruguay is 40, 17.5 and 3.6 million respectively. Buenos Aires is the largest metropolitan area at 13.1 million and Santiago, Chile has 6.4 million. When part of Southeastern Brazil is included, São Paulo is the largest city, with 19.8 million; in the Southern Brazil , the largest metropolitan area is ...