Local short name form

Official name

Area

Population

Capital

Currency

International telephone access code

ISO 3166 country codes

Car nationality plate code

Internet country code

GRC Country Code

   1.234,45

(where , indicates the decimal separator and . the thousands separator)

   Note: This section last updated 24th June 2021

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The official language, Spanish , is spoken by virtually the whole population.

The abbreviation used for Señorita in Uruguay is Srta.

Each person usually has a given name followed by two family names, that of the father followed by that of the mother, for example:

   Barbara Betancourt Perez

Upon marriage, females may take their husband’s name as a further given name, in this way:

   Barbara Betancourt Perez de Lopez

where the de indicates “(wife) of”. De usually indicates a married female, but may also be part of a name.

Professional people are often referred to by their qualification, followed by the given name and paternal family name (and sometimes the maternal family name):

   Doctor (m) / Doctora (f) (Dr/Dra)           Doctor/Ph.D.
   Ingeniero (m) / Ingeniera (f) (Ing.)        Engineer
   Licenciado (m) / Licenciada (f) (Lic.)      Holder of a university degree
   Profesor (Prof.)                            Professor, higher education teachers

This is preceded by the gender form of address.

   Tables of names can be acquired: given names , surnames/family names , family name prefixes , forms of address , job titles 

The following company type may be found:

   SA - Sociedad Anónima
   SAFI – Sociedad Anónima Financiera de Inversión – offshore company
   SRL - Sociedad Responsabilidad Limitada

   Comprehensive tables of these strings can be acquired – see http:www.grcdi.nl/addresses.htm 

   Note: This section last updated 25th October 2020

Addresses are formatted:

   Name
   {thoroughfare type[ ]}Thoroughfare name[ ]number
   {Sub-locality}
   postal code[ - ]CITY{, }DEPARTAMENTO

For example:

The hyphen between the postal code and the postal city is not always written. The departamento name may be written after the postal city, separated from it by a comma (except where the city name and the departamento name are the same):

   11000 – PANDO, CANELONES 

As is usual in Spanish-speaking countries, if the thoroughfare type is calle (Street), then this is not written in the address. The thoroughfare type is written commencing with a lower-case letter. For a full list of thoroughfare types, please refer to the chapter on Spain.

   A table containing information about the relevant position of elements within address blocks can be acquired 

This is written Apartado Postal in Uruguay.

Uruguayan postal codes (Código Postal) consist of a block of 5 digits, commencing with a number between 1 and 9. The first digit indicates the region or department. The final two digits indicate a block of houses (in towns) or a village.

Metadata containing postal code formatting rules, exceptions and regular expressions can be acquired

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Uruguay - Postal code format

Uruguay - Postal code specifics

Uruguay - Postal code regular expression

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Uruguay - Postal code map

   Note: This section last updated 14th September 2017

Refer to Exonyms in Uruguay for full lists of place names in Uruguay in other languages.

   Alternate place name forms/postal code tables can be acquired at http://www.grcdi.nl/settlements.htm 

   Other language place name data can be acquired at http://www.grcdi.nl/otherlanguageplace.htm 

Uruguay has 19 departments (departamentos, singular - departamento), not used in addresses. They are, with their postal code ranges:

Artigas	55
Canelones	14,15,16, 900-90600, 90601-90602 (shared with Florida), 90603-90800, 91
Cerro Largo	37000-37006, 371
Colonia	70000-70002, 70003 (shared with Soriano), 70004-70204
Durazno	97000-97004, 97006-97007, 971
Flores	85
Florida	90601-90602 (shared with Canelones), 94, 97005
Lavalleja	300, 301, 30200-30202, 30203 (share with Treinta y Tres), 30300, 30301
Maldonado	20
Montevideo	11,12
Paysandú	60000-60001, 60002 (shared with Rio Negro), 60003-60017, 65001 (shared with Rio Negro)
Río Negro	60002 (shared with Paysandú), 65000, 65001 (shared with Paysandú), 651
Rivera	40
Rocha	27
Salto	50
San José	80
Soriano	70003 (shared with Colonia), 75
Tacuarembó	45
Treinta y Tres	30203 (shared with Lavalleja), 30302, 33, 37007

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Uruguayan telephone numbers have a total length of 8 digits when called from abroad. Mobile area codes begin with a 9.