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Location: Southern
South America,
bordering the South
Atlantic Ocean,
between Chile and Uruguay
Total Area: 2,780,400 sq km
Area - Comparative: slightly less
than three-tenths the size of the
US
Border Countries: Bolivia, Brazil,
Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay
Climate: mostly temperate; arid in
southeast; subantarctic in
southwest
Terrain: rich plains of the Pampas
in northern half, flat to rolling
plateau of Patagonia in south,
rugged Andes along western
border
Median Age: 31.2
years
Population Growth
Rate: 0.95% (2014
Highest Point: Cerro
Aconcagua 6,960 m
(located in the
northwestern corner
of the province of Mendoza;
highest point in South America)
Lowest Point: Laguna del
Carbon -105 m (located between
Puerto San Julian and
Comandante Luis Piedra Buena in
the province of Santa Cruz)
Natural Resources: fertile plains
of the pampas, lead, zinc, tin,
copper, iron ore, manganese,
petroleum, uranium, arable land
Country Name Long
Form: Argentine
Republic
Short Form:
est.)
Literacy: 98.1% age 10 and over
can read and write
Male: 98%
Female: 98.1% (2015 est.)
Child labor - children ages 5-14:
total number: 435,252
percentage: 7%
Government Type: republic
Capital: Buenos Aires
Independence: 9 July 1816 (from
Spain)
Currency: Argentine pesos
National Holiday: Revolution
Day, 25 May (1810)
Argentina
Note: originally the area was
referred to as Tierra Argentina,
i.e., "Land beside the Silvery
River" or "Silvery Land," which
referred to the massive estuary in
the east of the country, the Rio de
la Plata (River of Silver); over time
the name shortened to simply
Argentina or "silvery"
National Symbol(s): Sun of May
(a sun-with-face symbol)
National Anthem: "Himno
Nacional Argentino" (Argentine
National Anthem)
Location: Southern
South America,
bordering the South
Atlantic Ocean,
between Chile and Uruguay
Total Area: 2,780,400 sq km
Area - Comparative: slightly less
than three-tenths the size of the
US
Border Countries: Bolivia, Brazil,
Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay
Climate: mostly temperate; arid in
southeast; subantarctic in
southwest
Terrain: rich plains of the Pampas
in northern half, flat to rolling
plateau of Patagonia in south,
rugged Andes along western
border
Highest Point: Cerro
Aconcagua 6,960 m
(located in the
northwestern corner
of the province of Mendoza;
highest point in South America)
Lowest Point: Laguna del
Carbon -105 m (located between
Puerto San Julian and
Comandante Luis Piedra Buena in
the province of Santa Cruz)
Natural Resources: fertile plains
of the pampas, lead, zinc, tin,
copper, iron ore, manganese,
petroleum, uranium, arable land
Median Age: 31.2
years
Population Growth
Rate: 0.95% (2014
est.)
Literacy: 98.1% age 10 and over
can read and write
Male: 98%
Female: 98.1% (2015 est.)
Child labor - children ages 5-14:
total number: 435,252
percentage: 7%
Government Type: republic
Capital: Buenos Aires
Independence: 9 July 1816 (from
Spain)
Currency: Argentine pesos
National Holiday: Revolution
Day, 25 May (1810)
Country Name Long
Form: Argentine
Republic
Short Form:
Argentina
Note: originally the area was
referred to as Tierra Argentina,
i.e., "Land beside the Silvery
River" or "Silvery Land," which
referred to the massive estuary in
the east of the country, the Rio de
la Plata (River of Silver); over time
the name shortened to simply
Argentina or "silvery"
National Symbol(s): Sun of May
(a sun-with-face symbol)
National Anthem: "Himno
Nacional Argentino" (Argentine
National Anthem)
Natural Hazards:
San Miguel de
Tucuman and
Mendoza areas in the
Andes subject to earthquakes;
pamperos are violent windstorms
that can strike the pampas and
northeast; heavy flooding in some
areas; volcanic activity in the
Andes Mountains along the
Chilean border; Copahue (elev.
2,997 m) last erupted in 2000;
other historically active volcanoes
include Llullaillaco, Maipo,
Planchon-Peteroa, San Jose,
Tromen, Tupungatito, and Viedma
Nationality: Argentine(s)
Ethnic Groups:
white (mostly
Spanish and Italian)
97%, mestizo (mixed
white and Amerindian ancestry),
Amerindian, or other non-white
groups 3%
Languages: Spanish (official),
Italian, English, German, French,
indigenous (Mapudungun,
Quechua)
Religions: nominally Roman
Catholic 92% (less than 20%
practicing), Protestant 2%, Jewish
2%, other 4%
Population: 43,024,374 (July
2014 est.)
Life Expectancy: 77.51 years
Legal System: civil
law system based on
West European legal
systems; note - in
2014, Congress passed
government-backed reform to the
civil code that will go into effect in
2016
Agriculture - Products:
sunflower seeds, lemons,
soybeans, grapes, corn, tobacco,
peanuts, tea, wheat; livestock
Industries: food processing,
motor vehicles, consumer
durables, textiles, chemicals and
petrochemicals, printing,
metallurgy, steel
Labor Force: 17.31
million
Population Below
Poverty Line: 30%
Exports - Commodities:
soybeans and derivatives,
petroleum and gas, vehicles, corn,
wheat
Exports - partners: Brazil 21%,
China 7.1%, US 5.5%, Chile 4.6%
(2013)
Imports - Commodities:
machinery, motor vehicles,
petroleum and natural gas,
organic chemicals, plastics
Imports - partners: Brazil 27.8%,
US 14.5%, China 12.4%,
Germany 4.6% (2013)
Natural Hazards:
San Miguel de
Tucuman and
Mendoza areas in the
Andes subject to earthquakes;
pamperos are violent windstorms
that can strike the pampas and
northeast; heavy flooding in some
areas; volcanic activity in the
Andes Mountains along the
Chilean border; Copahue (elev.
2,997 m) last erupted in 2000;
other historically active volcanoes
include Llullaillaco, Maipo,
Planchon-Peteroa, San Jose,
Tromen, Tupungatito, and Viedma
Nationality: Argentine(s)
Ethnic Groups:
white (mostly
Spanish and Italian)
97%, mestizo (mixed
white and Amerindian ancestry),
Amerindian, or other non-white
groups 3%
Languages: Spanish (official),
Italian, English, German, French,
indigenous (Mapudungun,
Quechua)
Religions: nominally Roman
Catholic 92% (less than 20%
practicing), Protestant 2%, Jewish
2%, other 4%
Population: 43,024,374 (July
2014 est.)
Life Expectancy: 77.51 years
Legal System: civil
law system based on
West European legal
systems; note - in
2014, Congress passed
government-backed reform to the
civil code that will go into effect in
2016
Agriculture - Products:
sunflower seeds, lemons,
soybeans, grapes, corn, tobacco,
peanuts, tea, wheat; livestock
Industries: food processing,
motor vehicles, consumer
durables, textiles, chemicals and
petrochemicals, printing,
metallurgy, steel
Labor Force: 17.31
million
Population Below
Poverty Line: 30%
Exports - Commodities:
soybeans and derivatives,
petroleum and gas, vehicles, corn,
wheat
Exports - partners: Brazil 21%,
China 7.1%, US 5.5%, Chile 4.6%
(2013)
Imports - Commodities:
machinery, motor vehicles,
petroleum and natural gas,
organic chemicals, plastics
Imports - partners: Brazil 27.8%,
US 14.5%, China 12.4%,
Germany 4.6% (2013)