!!!Uruguay: Geography
||Location|Southern South America, bordering the South Atlantic Ocean, between Argentina and Brazil
||Geographic Coordinates|33 00 S, 56 00 W[{GoogleMap location='-33.0,-56.0' zoom='4'}]
||Area |''total: ''176,215 sq km\\''land: ''175,015 sq km\\''water: ''1,200 sq km__\\''We are unable to verify those figures from Factbook, since the 6 main sources we used for checking give different figures as follows:\\[Factbook|https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook]: 176215\\ [DBpedia|http://dbpedia.org]: 176215\\ [Geoname|http://www.geonames.org]: 176220\\ [Infoplease|http://www.infoplease.com]: 176220\\ [Britannica|http://www.britannica.com]: 177879\\ [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: 176215''__\\__Attempted Explanation__: Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org]
||Land boundaries|''total: ''1,648 km\\''border countries: ''Argentina 580 km, Brazil 1,068 km
||Coastline|660 km
||Elevation Extremes|''lowest point: ''Atlantic Ocean 0 m\\''highest point: ''Cerro Catedral 514 m
||Highest Mountains|
||Terrain|mostly rolling plains and low hills; fertile coastal lowland
||Natural Hazards|seasonally high winds (the pampero is a chilly and occasional violent wind that blows north from the Argentine pampas), droughts, floods; because of the absence of mountains, which act as weather barriers, all locations are particularly vulnerable to rapid changes from weather fronts
||Natural Resource|arable land, hydropower, minor minerals, fish
||Land Use|''arable land: ''10.25%\\''permanent crops: ''0.22%\\''other: ''89.52% (2011)
||Climate|warm temperate; freezing temperatures almost unknown
||Irrigated Land|1,810 sq km (2003)
||Renewable Water Resources|139 cu km (2011)
||Environment_CurrentIssues|water pollution from meat packing/tannery industry; inadequate solid/hazardous waste disposal
||Environment - international agreements|''party to: ''Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic-Marine Living Resources, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands\\''signed, but not ratified: ''Marine Dumping, Marine Life Conservation
||Large Cities|__Due to difference in city rankings taken from two data sources we are listing here both lists :__\\According to [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: Montevideo; Salto; Ciudad de la Costa; Paysandu; Las Piedras\\According to [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org]: Montevideo; Salto; Paysandú; Las Piedras; Rivera\\\\\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org] \\[Important Cities|Geography/America/Uruguay/Geography/Important_Cities]
||Geography-note|second-smallest South American country (after Suriname); most of the low-lying landscape (three-quarters of the country) is grassland, ideal for cattle and sheep raising