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Uruguay

Colonia Department

Colonia is a department of southwestern . Its capital is , the country's second-oldest city.
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  • Type: State with 136,000 residents
  • Description: department of Uruguay
  • Also known as: “Colonia” and “Colonia (Uruguay)”
  • Neighbors: and

Colonia Department

Latitude
-34.1665° or 34° 9′ 59″ south
Longitude
-57.4993° or 57° 29′ 58″ west
Population
136,000
Elevation
71 metres (233 feet)
Open location code
48Q4RGM2+C7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1976165729
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
3443025
Wiki­data ID
Q16580
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Colonia Department” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إدارة كولونيا”
  • Arabic: “قسم كولونيا”
  • Asturian: “Colonia (Uruguái)”
  • Asturian: “Colonia”
  • Basque: “Colonia departamendua”
  • Belarusian: “дэпартамент Калонія”
  • Belarusian: “Калёнія”
  • Belarusian: “Калонія, дэпартамент”
  • Belarusian: “Калонія”
  • Bengali: “কুলুনিয়া বিভাগ”
  • Breton: “Colonia”
  • Bulgarian: “Колония (департамент)”
  • Bulgarian: “Колония”
  • Catalan: “Departament de Colonia”
  • Cebuano: “Departamento de Colonia”
  • Chavacano: “Colonia”
  • Chinese: “Colonia Séng”
  • Chinese: “科洛尼亚省”
  • Croatian: “Colonia”
  • Czech: “Colonia”
  • Danish: “Colonia (departement)”
  • Danish: “Colonia”
  • Dutch: “Colonia (departement)”
  • Dutch: “Colonia”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اداره كولونيا”
  • Esperanto: “Colonia”
  • Esperanto: “departemento Colonia”
  • Esperanto: “Departemento Colonia”
  • Esperanto: “departemento Kolonio”
  • Finnish: “Colonia (departementti)”
  • Finnish: “Colonia”
  • French: “Colonia”
  • Galician: “Departamento de Colonia”
  • Georgian: “კოლონიის დეპარტამენტი”
  • German: “Colonia”
  • German: “Departamento Colonia”
  • German: “UY-CO”
  • Greek: “Κολόνια”
  • Gujarati: “કોલોનિયા વિભાગ”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז קולוניה”
  • Hebrew: “קולוניה (מחוז)”
  • Hebrew: “קולוניה”
  • Hindi: “कोलोनिया विभाग”
  • Hungarian: “Colonia megye”
  • Indonesian: “Departemen Colonia”
  • Italian: “dipartimento di Colonia”
  • Italian: “Dipartimento di Colonia”
  • Japanese: “コロニア県”
  • Kannada: “ಕಲೋನಿಯಾ ಇಲಾಖೆ”
  • Korean: “콜로니아주”
  • Ladino: “Colonia”
  • Latvian: “Kolonijas departaments”
  • Lezghian: “Колония”
  • Lithuanian: “Kolonijos departamentas”
  • Macedonian: “Колонија (департман)”
  • Macedonian: “Колонија”
  • Malay: “Colonia Department”
  • Maltese: “Dipartiment ta‘ Colonia”
  • Marathi: “कॉलोनिया विभाग”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Colonia Séng”
  • Northern Frisian: “Colonia”
  • Northern Sami: “Colonia (departemeanta)”
  • Northern Sami: “Colonia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Colonia (departement)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Colonia”
  • Norwegian: “Colonia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Colonia”
  • Persian: “بخش کولونیا”
  • Polish: “Colonia (departament)”
  • Polish: “Colonia”
  • Portuguese: “Colônia, Uruguai”
  • Portuguese: “Colonia”
  • Portuguese: “Colônia”
  • Portuguese: “Departamento de Colonia”
  • Portuguese: “Departamento de Colônia”
  • Quechua: “Colonia suyu”
  • Romanian: “Departamentul Colonia”
  • Romanian: “Departmentul Colonia”
  • Russian: “Колония”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Colonia (departman)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Colonia”
  • Sinhala: “කොලොනියා දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව”
  • Sinhala: “කොලොනියා ප්‍රජා කොට්ඨාශය, උරුගුවේ”
  • Slovak: “Colonia”
  • Spanish: “Colonia”
  • Spanish: “Departamento de Colonia”
  • Swedish: “Colonia”
  • Tamil: “கோலோனியா துறை”
  • Telugu: “కొలోనియా డిపార్ట్మెంట్”
  • Telugu: “కొలోనియా విభాగం”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดโกโลเนีย”
  • Turkish: “Colonia Department”
  • Turkish: “Colonia”
  • Ukrainian: “Колонія”
  • Urdu: “کولونیا ڈیپارٹمنٹ”
  • Urdu: “کولونیا محکمہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Colonia (tỉnh)”
  • Vietnamese: “Colonia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Colonia (departamento)”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Colonia”
  • Wu Chinese: “科洛尼亚省”

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