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The
Argentine Republic, is a country in South
America, constituted as a federation of twenty-three
provinces and an autonomous city. It is second in
size in South America and eighth in the world.
Argentina occupies a continental surface area of
2,766,890 km² (1,068,302 sq mi) between the Andes
mountain range in the west and the southern Atlantic
Ocean in the east and south. It is bordered by
Paraguay and Bolivia in the north, Brazil and
Uruguay in the northeast, and Chile in the west and
south. Argentina also claimed 969,464 km² (374,312 sq mi)
of Antarctica, known as Argentine Antarctica,
overlapping other claims made by Chile (Chilean
Antarctic Territory) and the United Kingdom (British
Antarctic Territory), but all such claims are
suspended by the Antarctic Treaty of 1957. |
