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List of autonomous areas by country; List of sovereign states; List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area, comparing continents, countries, and first-level administrative country subdivisions. List of first-level administrative divisions by population; List of FIPS region codes in FIPS 10-4, withdrawn from the Federal ...
Since 2009 (Law No. 18567 of 13 September 2009), [5] the Uruguayan departments have been subdivided into municipalities. This system has been widely criticized as a waste of resources, due to Uruguay's small population of 3.4 million. The inaugural municipal elections were held in 2010, with municipal officials assuming office later in the year ...
Map of municipalities and departments of Uruguay as of 2021. The Uruguayan departments are subdivided into municipalities and, as of 2023, there are 127 municipalities. This second level administrative division system was created by Law No. 18567 of 13 September 2009 and the first municipalities were created (or converted from Local Boards in the previous system) in March 2010.
Country in Interwar Europe. Size accounts for area peak in 1939. Norway (total) 385,155: Country in Europe. Includes mainland Norway (324,220 km 2) and the integral overseas areas of Svalbard and Jan Mayen (60,980 km 2); excludes the dependency of Bouvet Island (49 km 2) and the Antarctic dependency claims of Queen Maud Land and Peter I Island ...
Political observers consider Uruguay the most secular country in the Americas. [155] Uruguay's secularization began with the relatively minor role of the church in the colonial era, compared with other parts of the Spanish Empire. The small numbers of Uruguay's indigenous peoples and their resistance to proselytism reduced the influence of the ...
Uruguay: 0.830: 3 Centro Sur (Flores, Florida and Lavalleja) 0.822 4 Centro (Durazno and Tacuarembó) 0.804 High human development 5 Litoral Sur (Soriano, Colonia and San José) 0.797 6 Norte (Artigas, Rivera, Cerro Largo and Treinta y Tres) 0.798 7 Litoral Norte (Paysandú, Salto and Río Negro) 0.789
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 list below includes all entities falling even partially under any of the various common definitions of Europe, geographical or political.Fifty generally recognised sovereign states, Kosovo with limited, but substantial, international recognition, and four largely unrecognised de facto states with limited to no recognition have territory in Europe and/or membership in international European ...