Uruguay is about 1.4 times smaller than Michigan.

Michigan is approximately 250,493 sq km, while Uruguay is approximately 176,215 sq km, making Uruguay 70.35% the size of Michigan. Meanwhile, the population of Michigan is ~9.9 million people (6.5 million fewer people live in Uruguay).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Michigan vs. Uruguay uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.