Uruguay

Official Name: República Oriental de Uruguay
Capitals: Montevideo
Population: 3,544,000 (2021 est.)
Size: 89th largest country in the world (176,215 km2)
• Uruguay comes from a Guarani word for “river of painted birds”
• Uruguay has the longest national anthem in the world— almost five minutes long
• Hosted the first World Cup in 1930—and won
• Tango was also born in Uruguay
• First country in the world to provide every student a free laptop and Wi-Fi connection
• Houses in Uruguay have names not numbers
• The flag was inspired by the flags of Argentina and the US; the nine stripes represent the nine provinces and the “Sun of May” represents the legend of the sun breaking through the
clouds when independence was declared from Spain.