Argentina Ingles
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Argentina
Argentina i/ˌɑrdʒənˈtiːnə/, officially the Argentine Republic (Spanish: República Argentina, pronounced [reˈpuβlika arxenˈtina]), is the second largest country inSouth America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires. It is the eighth-largest country in the world byland area and the largest among Spanish-speaking nations.
Argentina's continental area is between the Andes mountain range in the west and the Atlantic Ocean in the east. Itborders Paraguay and Bolivia to the north, Brazil and Uruguay to the northeast, and Chile to the west and south. Argentine claims over Antarctica, as well as overlapping claimsmade by Chile and the United Kingdom, are suspended by the Antarctic Treaty of 1961. Argentina also claims the Falkland Islands (Spanish: Islas Malvinas) and South Georgia and theSouth Sandwich Islands, which are administered by the United Kingdom as British Overseas Territories.
A recognised middle power,[10] Argentina is Latin America's third-largesteconomy,[11] with a high rating on the Human development index.[9] Within Latin America, Argentina has the fifth highest nominal GDP per capita and the highest in purchasingpower terms.[12] Analysts[13] have argued that the country has a "foundation for future growth due to its market size, levels of foreign direct investment, and percentage ofhigh-tech exports as share of total manufactured goods", and it is classed by investors as an emerging economy. Argentina is a founding member of the United Nations, Mercosur, the Unionof South American Nations, the Organization of Ibero-American States, the World Bank Group and the World Trade Organization, and is one of the G-15 and G-20 major economies.
Argentina i/ˌɑrdʒənˈtiːnə/, officially the Argentine Republic (Spanish: República Argentina, pronounced [reˈpuβlika arxenˈtina]), is the second largest country inSouth America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires. It is the eighth-largest country in the world byland area and the largest among Spanish-speaking nations.
Argentina's continental area is between the Andes mountain range in the west and the Atlantic Ocean in the east. Itborders Paraguay and Bolivia to the north, Brazil and Uruguay to the northeast, and Chile to the west and south. Argentine claims over Antarctica, as well as overlapping claimsmade by Chile and the United Kingdom, are suspended by the Antarctic Treaty of 1961. Argentina also claims the Falkland Islands (Spanish: Islas Malvinas) and South Georgia and theSouth Sandwich Islands, which are administered by the United Kingdom as British Overseas Territories.
A recognised middle power,[10] Argentina is Latin America's third-largesteconomy,[11] with a high rating on the Human development index.[9] Within Latin America, Argentina has the fifth highest nominal GDP per capita and the highest in purchasingpower terms.[12] Analysts[13] have argued that the country has a "foundation for future growth due to its market size, levels of foreign direct investment, and percentage ofhigh-tech exports as share of total manufactured goods", and it is classed by investors as an emerging economy. Argentina is a founding member of the United Nations, Mercosur, the Unionof South American Nations, the Organization of Ibero-American States, the World Bank Group and the World Trade Organization, and is one of the G-15 and G-20 major economies.
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