Rio de la Plata
Montevideo Department
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Montevideo

Montevideo is the capital city of , on the east bank of the Rio de la Plata. Though sometimes overlooked beside nearby , Montevideo is the cultural and political center of the country.
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  • Type: City with 1,300,000 residents
  • Description: capital and largest city of Uruguay
  • Also known as: “Ciudad de Montevideo”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Mercosur and Biblioteca Nacional de Uruguay.

Government office
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The Southern Common Market is a trade bloc established by the Treaty of Asunción in 1991 and Protocol of Ouro Preto in 1994. Its full members are , , , , and . is a full member but has been suspended since 1 December 2016. , , , , , , and are associate countries.

Library
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The is the National Library of , located in Montevideo. It was created in 1815 and is the legal deposit and copyright library for .

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The is an eclectic skyscraper at the intersection of and in Montevideo, . Finished in 1928, the 27-story stands 105 m high.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cordón and Punta Carretas.

Suburb
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is a central barrio of Montevideo, . Part of the city's central business district, alongside and , the that runs through the area is home to commercial spaces, office buildings, entertainment venues, and educational centers.

Suburb
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is a barrio of Montevideo, . Politically located in the Municipality CH, it is an affluent neighborhood, with a high population density and a large number of high-rise apartment buildings.

Suburb
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is a barrio of Montevideo, . Being the city's downtown area, it forms part of its central business district, along with the neighboring areas of and .

Montevideo

Latitude
-34.9059° or 34° 54′ 21″ south
Longitude
-56.1913° or 56° 11′ 29″ west
Population
1,300,000
Elevation
34 metres (112 feet)
IATA airport code
MVD
United Nations Location Code
UY MVD
Open location code
48Q53RV5+JF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 296140043
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3441575
Wiki­data ID
Q1335
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Montevideo” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Монтевидео”
  • Achinese: “Montevideo”
  • Afrikaans: “Montevideo”
  • Albanian: “Montevideo”
  • Amharic: “ሞንቴቪዴዎ”
  • Arabic: “مونتفيدو”
  • Arabic: “مونتيفيديو”
  • Aragonese: “Montevideo”
  • Armenian: “Մոնտեվիդեո”
  • Armenian: “Մոնտևիդեո”
  • Asturian: “Montevidéu”
  • Aymara: “Muntividëw”
  • Azerbaijani: “Montevideo”
  • Balinese: “Montévidéo”
  • Bashkir: “Монтевидео”
  • Basque: “Montevideo”
  • Bavarian: “Montevideo”
  • Belarusian: “Мантэвідэа”
  • Belarusian: “Мантэвідэо”
  • Belarusian: “Монтэвідэо”
  • Bengali: “মন্টেভিডিও”
  • Bengali: “মোন্তেবিদেও”
  • Bengali: “মোন্তেভিদেও”
  • Bosnian: “Montevideo”
  • Breton: “Montevideo”
  • Bulgarian: “Монтевидео”
  • Burmese: “မွန်တီဗစ်ဒီအိုမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Montevideo”
  • Cebuano: “Montevideo”
  • Central Bikol: “Montevideo”
  • Central Kurdish: “مۆنتیڤیدیۆ”
  • Chavacano: “Montevideo ciudad”
  • Chechen: “Монтевидео”
  • Chinese: “Montevideo”
  • Chinese: “蒙得維的亞”
  • Chinese: “蒙得维的亚”
  • Chinese: “蒙特維多”
  • Chuvash: “Монтевидео”
  • Corsican: “Montevideo”
  • Croatian: “Montevideo”
  • Czech: “Montevideo”
  • Danish: “Montevideo”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Montevideo”
  • Dutch: “Montevideo”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مونتيڤيدييو”
  • Esperanto: “Montevideo”
  • Estonian: “Montevideo”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Montevideo”
  • Fijian: “Montevideo”
  • Fijian: “Motevideo”
  • Finnish: “Montevideo”
  • French: “Montevideo”
  • French: “Montévidéo”
  • French: “San Felipe y Santiago de Montevideo”
  • Gagauz: “Montevideo”
  • Galician: “Montevideo”
  • Georgian: “მონტევიდეო”
  • German: “Montevideo”
  • Greek: “Μοντεβιδέο”
  • Guarani: “Montevideo”
  • Gujarati: “મોન્ટેવીડિયો”
  • Haitian: “Montevideo”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Montevideo”
  • Hausa: “Montevideo”
  • Hawaiian: “Montevideo”
  • Hebrew: “מונטווידאו”
  • Hindi: “मोण्टेवीडियो”
  • Hungarian: “Montevideo”
  • Icelandic: “Montevídeó”
  • Ido: “Montevideo”
  • Inari Sami: “Montevideo”
  • Indonesian: “Montevideo”
  • Interlingua: “Montevideo”
  • Interlingue: “Montevideo”
  • Irish: “Montevideo”
  • Italian: “Montevideo”
  • Japanese: “モンテヴィデオ”
  • Japanese: “モンテビデオ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Montevideo”
  • Kannada: “ಮಾಂಟೇವಿಡಿಯೋ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Montevideo”
  • Kazakh: “Монтевидео қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Монтевидео”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Montevideo”
  • Kirghiz: “Монтевидео”
  • Kongo: “Montevideo”
  • Korean: “몬떼비데오”
  • Korean: “몬테비데오”
  • Kotava: “Montevideo”
  • Kurdish: “Montevideo”
  • Ladino: “Montevideo”
  • Latin: “Urbs Montis Videi”
  • Latvian: “Montevideo”
  • Lezghian: “Монтевидео”
  • Ligurian: “Montevideo”
  • Lingala: “Montevideo”
  • Lithuanian: “Montevidėjas”
  • Livvi: “Montevideo”
  • Lombard: “Montevideo”
  • Low German: “Montevideo”
  • Luxembourgish: “Montevideo”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Montevideo”
  • Macedonian: “Монтевидео”
  • Malagasy: “Montevideo”
  • Malay: “Montevideo”
  • Malayalam: “മൊണ്ടേവീഡിയോ”
  • Maltese: “Montevideo”
  • Maori: “Mangaata”
  • Marathi: “मोन्तेविदेओ”
  • Mazanderani: “مونته ویدئو”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Montevideo”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Montevideo”
  • Minangkabau: “Montevideo”
  • Mingrelian: “მონტევიდეო”
  • Moksha: “Монтэвидэа”
  • Moksha: “Монтэвидэо”
  • Mongolian: “Монтевидео”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “مونطيڤيديو”
  • Neapolitan: “Montevideo”
  • Newari: “मोन्तेभिदियो”
  • Northern Frisian: “Montevideo”
  • Northern Luri: “مونته ویدئو”
  • Northern Sami: “Montevideo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Montevideo”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Montevideo”
  • Norwegian: “Montevideo”
  • Novial: “Montevideo”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Montevideo”
  • Oriya: “ମଣ୍ଟିଭିଡ଼ିଓ”
  • Ossetian: “Монтевидео”
  • Pangasinan: “Montevideo”
  • Panjabi: “ਮੋਂਤੇਵੀਦਿਓ”
  • Papiamento: “Montevideo”
  • Papiamento: “Montevidéu”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Montevideo”
  • Persian: “مونته‌ویدئ”
  • Persian: “مونته‌ویدئو”
  • Picard: “Montevideo”
  • Piemontese: “Montevideo”
  • Polish: “Montevideo”
  • Portuguese: “Montevidéu”
  • Pushto: “مونټي ویډو”
  • Quechua: “Montevideo”
  • Romanian: “Montevideo”
  • Romansh: “Montevideo”
  • Rundi: “Montevideo”
  • Russian: “Монтевидео”
  • Russian: “Сан-Фелипе-и-Сантьяго-де-Монтевидео”
  • Russian: “Сьюдад-де-Сан-Фелипе-и-Сантьяго-де-Монтевидео”
  • Rusyn: “Монтевидео”
  • Samogitian: “Montevidėjas”
  • Samogitian: “Montevidiejos”
  • Sardinian: “Montevideo”
  • Scots: “Montevideo”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Montevideo”
  • Serbian: “Монтевидео”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Montevideo”
  • Shan: “မွၼ်တီဝိတ်ႉတေးဢူဝ်ႇ”
  • Shona: “Montevideo”
  • Sicilian: “Muntividèu”
  • Silesian: “Montevideo”
  • Sindhi: “مونٽي ويڊيو”
  • Sinhala: “මොන්ටෙවීඩියෝ”
  • Skolt Sami: “Montevideo”
  • Slovak: “Montevideo”
  • Slovenian: “Montevideo”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مونته‌ویدئو”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de San Felipe y Santiago de Montevideo”
  • Spanish: “Montevideo”
  • Spanish: “San Felipe y Santiago de Montevideo”
  • Spanish: “Muy Fiel y Reconquistadora Ciudad de San Felipe y Santiago de Montevideo” (historical)
  • Swahili: “Montevideo”
  • Swedish: “Montevideo”
  • Swiss German: “Montevideo”
  • Tagalog: “Montevideo”
  • Tahitian: “Montevideo”
  • Tajik: “Монтевидео”
  • Talysh: “Montevideo”
  • Tamil: “மொண்டிவிடியோ”
  • Tamil: “மொண்டேவீடியோ”
  • Tamil: “மோன்டவிதேயோ”
  • Tatar: “Монтевидео”
  • Telugu: “మోంటేవీడియో”
  • Tetum: “Montevideu”
  • Thai: “มอนเตวิเดโอ”
  • Tibetan: “མཱོན་ཊི་ཝི་ཌོ།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Montevideo”
  • Turkish: “Montevideo”
  • Turkmen: “Montowideo”
  • Udmurt: “Монтевидео”
  • Uighur: “مونتېۋىدېئو”
  • Ukrainian: “Монтевідео”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Montevideo”
  • Urdu: “مونتیبیدیو”
  • Urdu: “مونٹیویڈیو”
  • Uzbek: “Montevideo”
  • Venetian: “Montevideo”
  • Veps: “Montevideo”
  • Vietnamese: “Montevideo”
  • Vlax Romani: “Montevideo”
  • Volapük: “Montevideo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Montevideo”
  • Welsh: “Montevideo”
  • Western Armenian: “Մոնթէվիտէօ”
  • Western Frisian: “Montevideo”
  • Western Panjabi: “مونٹیویڈیو”
  • Wolof: “Montevideo”
  • Wu Chinese: “蒙得维的亚”
  • Yiddish: “מאנטעווידעא”
  • Yoruba: “Montevideo”
  • Yue Chinese: “蒙特維多”
  • Zhuang: “Montevideo”
  • Zulu: “i-Montevideo”
  • “Montevideo”
  • “Montevidiejos”

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