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ID: 1000058
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Record Type: administrative |
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Uruguay (nation) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 33 00 00 S degrees minutes |
Lat: -33.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 056 00 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -56.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Early inhabitants were Amerindian tribes known collectively as Charrúas; they were nearly all exterminated during European colonization; Spain arrived 1516; Portuguese settled 1680; was part of Spanish Viceroyalty of Río de la Plata late 18th cen.; official language is Spanish. |
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| Uruguay (preferred,C,V,English-P,U,N)
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| Uruguay (French-P,U,N)
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| Uruguay (Spanish-P,U,N)
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| República Oriental del Uruguay (C,V,Spanish,U,N)
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| Eastern Republic of Uruguay (C,O,English,U,N)
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| Oriental Republic of Uruguay (C,O)
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| République orientale de l'Uruguay (C,O,French,U,N)
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| Uruguai (C,O)
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| URY (C,O,ISO3L)
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| UY (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO858 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| UY00 (C,O,FIPS)
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| La Banda Oriental (H,V)
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| Uruguayan (C,O,English,U,A)
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Place Types: |
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| nation (preferred, C) |
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independence granted in 1828 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| independent sovereign nation (C) |
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| republic (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| member of .... |
United Nations .......... (organization) |
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(World) [7029605] |
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joined organization in 1945 |
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Sources and Contributors: |
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| République orientale de l'Uruguay.......... |
[VP] |
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ISO Handbook (1988) 785 |
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