Quick Summary:
- Uruguay is South America's second smallest country.
- It is on the coast of the South Atlantic Ocean, tucked between Brazil to the north and Argentina to the west and south.
- More than half of the population lives in the capital, Montevideo.
- Agriculture and tourism are the major industries, with sheep and beef farming taking up 60% of the land.
- It was first colonized by Portugal and then Spain, but Brazil and Argentina also had notions of absorbing their tiny neighbor.
- It is South America's most socially advanced country and has been rated first in terms of democracy, peace, and press freedom.
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