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Political organization. Argentina is a federation of twenty-three provinces and one autonomous city, Buenos Aires. Provinces are divided for administration purposes into departments and municipalities, except for Buenos Aires Province, which is divided into partidos and localidades. Buenos Aires City itself is divided into communes (comuna) and ...
This is a list of the localities of Argentina of 45,000 to 150,000 inhabitants ordered by amount of population according to the data of the 2001 INDEC Census. San Nicolás de los Arroyos (Buenos Aires) 133,602; San Rafael (Mendoza) 104,782; Rafael Castillo (Buenos Aires) 103,992; Trelew (Chubut) 103,305; Santa Rosa (La Pampa) 101,987; Tandil ...
Map of each province's population as of 2010 The following table is a list of the 23 provinces and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires of Argentina , ranked in order of their total population based on data from the 2022, 2010 and 2001 censuses from the National Institute of Statistics and Census of Argentina .
The listed cities below according to the 2010 & 2001 census by INDEC: National Institute of Statistics and Census of Argentina, [1] as well as 2010 totals by World Book Encyclopedia. The list is in order by 2010 numbers, unless there is no 2010 data, then 2001 numbers were used to substitute. Largest cities in Argentina
Argentina has a land area of 2,780,400 km². It is the 8th largest country in the world, between India and Kazakhstan. It is the second largest country in South America, after Brazil, and the fourth largest in the Americas after Brazil, Canada, and the United States. [6] The surface is almost eight times that of Germany, and four times that of ...
Regardless of the regions system used, some provinces are shared by more than one region. For instance, Southwestern Santiago del Estero is sometimes considered part of the Sierras area, or even the Humid Pampa , while the Southern part of La Pampa is sometimes called Dry Pampa and included in Patagonia.
Argentina is highly urbanized, [9] with the ten largest metropolitan areas accounting for half of the population, and fewer than one in ten living in rural areas. About 3 million people live in Buenos Aires proper, and including suburban Greater Buenos Aires the metropolitan area totals around 14 million - making it one of the 15 largest urban areas in the world. [12]
Buenos Aires, [ a ] officially the Buenos Aires Province, [ b ] is the largest and most populous Argentine province. It takes its name from the city of Buenos Aires, the capital of the country, which used to be part of the province and the province's capital until it was federalized in 1880. Since then, in spite of bearing the same name, the ...