República Oriental del Uruguay

Administrative units

departamento	capital	area (sq.km.)	population 1996-05-22 census	population 2004-06-14 census	population 2011-09-01 census
source: Instituto Nacional de Estadística and the Instituto Geográfico Militar, Uruguay. note: 2011 population census refers to preliminary results.
Artigas	Artigas	11,928	75,059	78,019	73,162
Canelones	Canelones	4,536	443,053	485,240	518,154
Cerro Largo	Melo	13,648	82,510	86,564	84,555
Colonia	Colonia	6,106	120,241	119,266	122,863
Durazno	Durazno	11,643	55,716	58,859	57,082
Flores	Trinidad	5,144	25,030	25,104	25,033
Florida	Florida	10,417	66,503	68,181	67,093
Lavalleja	Minas	10,016	61,085	60,925	58,843
Maldonado	Maldonado	4,793	127,502	140,192	161,571
Montevideo	Montevideo	530	1,344,839	1,325,968	1,292,347
Paysandú	Paysandú	13,922	111,509	113,244	113,112
Rio Negro	Fray Bentos	9,282	51,713	53,989	54,434
Rivera	Rivera	9,370	98,472	104,921	103,447
Rocha	Rocha	10,551	70,292	69,937	66,955
Salto	Salto	14,163	117,597	123,120	124,683
San José	San José de Mayo	4,992	96,664	103,104	108,025
Soriano	Mercedes	9,008	81,557	84,563	82,108
Tacuarembó	Tacuarembó	15,438	84,919	90,489	89,993
Treinta y Tres	Treinta y Tres	9,529	49,502	49,318	48,066
total		175,016	3,163,763	3,241,003	3,251,526

name	population 1996-05-22 census	population 2004-06-14 census
Montevideo	1,240,503	1,269,648
Salto	93,394	99,072
Ciudad de la Costa	66,609	83,399
Paysandú	74,171	73,272
Las Piedras	66,095	69,222
Rivera	63,099	64,426
Maldonado	49,309	54,603
Tacuarembó	45,892	51,224
Melo	46,889	50,578
Mercedes	39,139	42,032
Artigas	40,244	41,687
Minas	37,149	37,925
San José de Mayo	34,927	36,339
Durazno	30,529	33,576
Florida	31,448	32,128
Treinta y Tres	26,425	25,711
Rocha	26,027	25,538
San Carlos	23,878	24,771
Pando	24,368	24,004
Fray Bentos	21,880	23,122
Colonia del Sacramento	22,142	21,714
Trinidad	19,901	20,982
La Paz	19,625	19,832
Canelones	19,338	19,631
Delta del Tigre y Villas	13,615	17,457
El Pinar	10,396	17,221
Carmelo	16,658	16,866
Santa Lucía	16,601	16,425
Lomas de Solymar	10,959	16,018
Solymar	13,994	15,908
Progreso	14,477	15,775
Young	14,521	15,759
Dolores	14,764	15,753
Fracc. Cno. Maldonado	13,144	15,057
Paso de Carrasco	12,129	15,028
Juan Antonio Artigas	13,388	13,553
Río Branco	13,036	13,456
Paso de los Toros	13,367	13,231
Juan Lacaze	12,966	13,196
Bella Unión	13,537	13,187
Chuy	9,806	10,401
Nueva Helvecia	9,607	10,002
source: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Uruguay.