Editing Uruguay (section)

=== Administrative divisions ===
{{Main|Departments of Uruguay}}
[[File:Departments of Uruguay (map).png|thumb|A map of the departments of Uruguay]]
Uruguay is divided into 19 [[Department (administrative division)|departments]] whose local administrations replicate the division of the executive and legislative powers.<ref name="biz-guide"/> Each department elects its own authorities through a [[Universal suffrage|universal suffrage system]].<ref name="biz-guide"/> The departmental executive authority resides in a superintendent and the legislative authority in a departmental board.<ref name="biz-guide"/>

{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!rowspan=2|Department
!rowspan=2|Capital
!colspan=2|Area
!rowspan=2|Population (2023 census)<ref name="pop-ine">{{cite web|url=http://www.ine.gub.uy/censos2011/index.html |title=Censos 2011 – Instituto Nacional de Estadistica |publisher=Instituto Nacional de Estadística |access-date=13 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112153208/http://www.ine.gub.uy/censos2011/index.html |archive-date=12 January 2012}}</ref>
|-
!km<sup>2</sup>
!sq mi
|-
|[[Artigas Department|Artigas]]||[[Artigas, Uruguay|Artigas]]
|{{convert|11928|km2|sqmi|disp=table|sortable=on}}
|align=right|77,487
|-
|[[Canelones Department|Canelones]]||[[Canelones, Uruguay|Canelones]]
|{{convert|4536|km2|sqmi|disp=table|sortable=on}}
|align=right|608,956
|-
|[[Cerro Largo Department|Cerro Largo]]||[[Melo, Uruguay|Melo]]
|{{convert|13648|km2|sqmi|disp=table|sortable=on}}
|align=right|91,025
|-
|[[Colonia Department|Colonia]]||[[Colonia del Sacramento]]
|{{convert|6106|km2|sqmi|disp=table|sortable=on}}
|align=right|135,797
|-
|[[Durazno Department|Durazno]]||[[Durazno]]
|{{convert|11643|km2|sqmi|disp=table|sortable=on}}
|align=right|62,011
|-
|[[Flores Department|Flores]]||[[Trinidad, Uruguay|Trinidad]]
|{{convert|5144|km2|sqmi|disp=table|sortable=on}}
|align=right|26,271
|-
|[[Florida Department|Florida]]||[[Florida, Uruguay|Florida]]
|{{convert|10417|km2|sqmi|disp=table|sortable=on}}
|align=right|70,325
|-
|[[Lavalleja Department|Lavalleja]]||[[Minas, Uruguay|Minas]]
|{{convert|10016|km2|sqmi|disp=table|sortable=on}}
|align=right|59,175
|-
|[[Maldonado Department|Maldonado]]||[[Maldonado, Uruguay|Maldonado]]
|{{convert|4793|km2|sqmi|disp=table|sortable=on}}
|align=right|212,951
|-
|[[Montevideo Department|Montevideo]]||[[Montevideo]]
|{{convert|530|km2|sqmi|disp=table|sortable=on}}
|align=right|1,302,954
|-
|[[Paysandú Department|Paysandú]]||[[Paysandú]]
|{{convert|13922|km2|sqmi|disp=table|sortable=on}}
|align=right|121,843
|-
|[[Río Negro Department|Río Negro]]||[[Fray Bentos]]
|{{convert|9282|km2|sqmi|disp=table|sortable=on}}
|align=right|57,334
|-
|[[Rivera Department|Rivera]]||[[Rivera]]
|{{convert|9370|km2|sqmi|disp=table|sortable=on}}
|align=right|109,300
|-
|[[Rocha Department|Rocha]]||[[Rocha, Uruguay|Rocha]]
|{{convert|10551|km2|sqmi|disp=table|sortable=on}}
|align=right|80,707
|-
|[[Salto Department|Salto]]||[[Salto, Uruguay|Salto]]
|{{convert|14163|km2|sqmi|disp=table|sortable=on}}
|align=right|136,197
|-
|[[San José Department|San José]]||[[San José de Mayo]]
|{{convert|4992|km2|sqmi|disp=table|sortable=on}}
|align=right|119,714
|-
|[[Soriano Department|Soriano]]||[[Mercedes, Uruguay|Mercedes]]
|{{convert|9008|km2|sqmi|disp=table|sortable=on}}
|align=right|83,685
|-
|[[Tacuarembó Department|Tacuarembó]]||[[Tacuarembó]]
|{{convert|15438|km2|sqmi|disp=table|sortable=on}}
|align=right|96,013
|-
|[[Treinta y Tres Department|Treinta y Tres]]||[[Treinta y Tres]]
|{{convert|9529|km2|sqmi|disp=table|sortable=on}}
|align=right|47,706
|- style="background:#eee;"
|'''Total'''{{NoteTag|Total does not include the {{Convert|1199|km2|abbr=on}} artificial lakes of the Rio Negro.<ref>{{citation|author1=((Unidades Geoestadísticas (UGeo) – Uruguay)) |author2=((División Servicios Técnicos, Unidad de Cartografía)) |chapter=Definiciones geoestadísticas utilizadas en el del Censo de 2004 Fase I; y del Censo de 2011 |page=2 |url=https://www.gub.uy/instituto-nacional-estadistica/datos-y-estadisticas/estadisticas/mapas-unidades-geoestadisticas-2004 |publisher=Instituto Nacional de Estadística |language=es |date=2011 |title=Mapas de Unidades Geoestadísticas 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113202553/http://www.ine.gub.uy/mapas/definiciones%20para%20web.pdf |url-status=live |archive-date=13 November 2013}}. [https://www5.ine.gub.uy/documents/Cartograf%C3%ADa/Mapas%20de%20Unidades%20Geoestad%C3%ADsticas/2004/definiciones%20para%20web.pdf (Direct PDF file download)]</ref>}}||—
|{{convert|175016|km2|sqmi|disp=table|sortable=on}}
|align=right|3,499,451
|}