evidence: The Artigas department (Spanish: Departamento de Artigas) is a department of Uruguay. The capital is the city of Artigas. [...] Geography [change | change source]The Artigas department is the most northern department of Uruguay; it is in the northwestern part of the country. It has an area of 11,928 km2 (4,605 sq mi), the fifth largest in the country. The population is 73,378 inhabitants (2011 census) for a population density of 6.2. [...] Artigas is the only Uruguayan department that borders two other countries: Brazil and Argentina.