ons ground stations--45 Atlantic Ocean
INTELSAT and 16 Pacific Ocean INTELSAT

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: Department of the Army, Department of the Navy (including
Marine Corps), Department of the Air Force

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 66,458,000; NA fit for military
service

_#_Defense expenditures: $312.9 billion, 5.7% of GNP (1990)
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_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 176,220 km2; land area: 173,620 km2

_#_Comparative area: slightly smaller than Washington State

_#_Land boundaries: 1,564 km total; Argentina 579 km, Brazil 985 km

_#_Coastline: 660 km

_#_Maritime claims:

Continental shelf: 200 m (depth) or to depth of exploitation;

Territorial sea: 200 nm (overflight and navigation permitted
beyond 12 nm)

_#_Disputes: short section of boundary with Argentina is in dispute;
two short sections of the boundary with Brazil are in dispute (Arroyo
de la Invernada area of the Rio Quarai and the islands at the confluence
of the Rio Quarai and the Uruguay)

_#_Climate: warm temperate; freezing temperatures almost unknown

_#_Terrain: mostly rolling plains and low hills; fertile coastal
lowland

_#_Natural resources: soil, hydropower potential, minor minerals

_#_Land use: arable land 8%; permanent crops NEGL%; meadows and
pastures 78%; forest and woodland 4%; other 10%; includes irrigated 1%

_#_Environment: subject to seasonally high winds, droughts, floods

_*_People
_#_Population: 3,121,101 (July 1990), growth rate 0.6% (1991)

_#_Birth rate: 17 births/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Death rate: 10 deaths/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Net migration rate: - 1 migrants/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Infant mortality rate: 22 deaths/1,000 live births (1991)

_#_Life expectancy at birth: 69 years male, 76 years female (1991)

_#_Total fertility rate: 2.4 children born/woman (1991)

_#_Nationality: noun--Uruguayan(s); adjective--Uruguayan

_#_Ethnic divisions: white 88%, mestizo 8%, black 4%

_#_Religion: Roman Catholic (less than half adult population attends
church regularly) 66%, Protestant 2%, Jewish 2%, nonprofessing or other
30%

_#_Language: Spanish

_#_Literacy: 96% (male 97%, female 96%) age 15 and over can
read and write (1990 est.)

_#_Labor force: 1,300,000; government 25%, manufacturing 19%,
agriculture 11%, commerce 12%, utilities, construction, transport,
and communications 12%, other services 21% (1988 es