Capital:Montevideo
Population:3,415,920
Area:176,220 sq km
Climate:warm temperate; freezing temperatures almost unknown
Languages:Spanish, Portunol, or Brazilero (Portuguese-Spanish mix on the Brazilian frontier)
Currency:Uruguayan peso (UYU)
Government:constitutional republic
Religions:Roman Catholic 66% (less than half of the adult population attends church regularly), Protestant 2%, Jewish 1%, nonprofessing or other 31%
Source: CIA World Factbook 2007
