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Artigas Department

Artigas Department is the northernmost department of . Its capital is the city of , which borders the Brazilian city of . Artigas Department has an area of 11,928 square kilometres, making it the fifth largest in the country.
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cuaró.

Hamlet
is a caserío in the sparsely populated central Artigas Department of northern .

Artigas Department

Latitude
-30.6171° or 30° 37′ 2″ south
Longitude
-56.9373° or 56° 56′ 14″ west
Population
77,500
Elevation
100 metres (328 feet)
Open location code
48X593M7+53
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1417530830
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
3443756
Wiki­data ID
Q16603
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Artigas Department” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إدارة أرتيغاس”
  • Arabic: “قسم أرتيغاس”
  • Asturian: “Departamentu d’Artigas”
  • Basque: “Artigas departamendua”
  • Belarusian: “Артыгас (дэпартамент)”
  • Belarusian: “Артыгас (дэпартамэнт)”
  • Belarusian: “Артыгас”
  • Belarusian: “дэпартамент Артыгас”
  • Bengali: “আর্টিগাস বিভাগ”
  • Breton: “Departamant Artigas”
  • Bulgarian: “Артигас”
  • Catalan: “Departament d’Artigas”
  • Cebuano: “Departamento de Artigas”
  • Chavacano: “Artigas”
  • Chinese: “Artigas Séng”
  • Chinese: “阿蒂加斯省”
  • Croatian: “Artigas”
  • Danish: “Artigas”
  • Dutch: “Artigas”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ارتيجاس (اداره)”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ارتيجاس”
  • Esperanto: “Artigas”
  • Esperanto: “departemento Artigas”
  • Esperanto: “Departemento Artigas”
  • Finnish: “Artigas”
  • French: “Artigas”
  • Galician: “Departamento de Artigas”
  • Georgian: “არტიგასის დეპარტამენტი”
  • German: “Artigas”
  • German: “Departamento Artigas”
  • German: “UY-AR”
  • Greek: “Αρτίγκας”
  • Greek: “Νομός του Αρτίγας”
  • Gujarati: “આર્ટિગાસ વિભાગ”
  • Hebrew: “ארטיגס”
  • Hindi: “आर्टिगास विभाग”
  • Hungarian: “Artigas megye”
  • Indonesian: “Departemen Artigas”
  • Italian: “dipartimento di Artigas”
  • Italian: “Dipartimento di Artigas”
  • Japanese: “アルティガス県”
  • Kannada: “ಆರ್ಟಿಗಸ್ ಇಲಾಖೆ”
  • Korean: “아르티가스주”
  • Ladino: “Artigas”
  • Latvian: “Artigasas departaments”
  • Lezghian: “Артигас”
  • Lithuanian: “Artigaso departamentas”
  • Macedonian: “Артигас”
  • Malay: “Artigas Department”
  • Marathi: “आर्तीगॅस विभाग”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Artigas Séng”
  • Northern Frisian: “Artigas”
  • Northern Sami: “Artigas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Artigas”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Artigasdepartementet”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Departementet Artigas”
  • Norwegian: “Artigas”
  • Persian: “بخش آرتیگاس”
  • Polish: “Artigas”
  • Portuguese: “Artigas”
  • Portuguese: “Departamento de Artigas”
  • Portuguese: “Departmento de Artigas”
  • Quechua: “Artigas suyu”
  • Romanian: “Departamentul Artigas”
  • Russian: “Артигас”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Artigas (departman)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Artigas”
  • Sinhala: “අර්ටිගාස් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව”
  • Sinhala: “අර්ටිගාස් ප්‍රජා කොට්ඨාශය, උරුගුවේ”
  • Slovak: “Artigas”
  • Spanish: “Artigas”
  • Spanish: “Departamento de Artigas”
  • Swedish: “Artigas”
  • Tamil: “ஆர்ட்டிகஸ் துறை”
  • Telugu: “ఆర్టిగాస్ డిపార్ట్మెంట్”
  • Telugu: “ఆర్టిగాస్ విభాగం”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดอาร์ติกัส”
  • Turkish: “Artigas Departmanı”
  • Turkish: “Artigas”
  • Ukrainian: “Артиґас”
  • Ukrainian: “Артігас”
  • Urdu: “آرتیگاس ڈیپارٹمنٹ”
  • Urdu: “آرتیگاس محکمہ”
  • Uzbek: “Artigas departamenti”
  • Vietnamese: “Artigas”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Artigas”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿蒂加斯省”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Artigas Department”. Photo: Gerardo Conti P, CC0.