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The description of the region by the word Argentina has been found on a Venetian map in 1536. [26] In English, the name Argentina comes from the Spanish language; however, the naming itself is not Spanish, but Italian. Argentina (masculine argentino) means in Italian '(made) of silver, silver coloured', derived from the Latin argentum for silver
Argentina – country in South America, the continent's second largest 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 by land area and the largest among Spanish-speaking nations .
From West to East and North to South, these are: Argentine Northwest: Jujuy, Salta, Tucumán, Catamarca; Gran Chaco: Formosa, Chaco, Santiago del Estero; Mesopotamia ...
The geography of Argentina is heavily diverse, consisting of the Andes Mountains, pampas, and various rivers and lakes. Bordered by the Andes in the west and the South Atlantic Ocean to the east, its neighbouring countries are Chile to the west, Bolivia and Paraguay to the north, and Brazil and Uruguay to the northeast.
Salta (Spanish:) is the capital and largest city in the Argentine province of the same name.With a population of 618,375 according to the 2010 census, it is also the 7th most-populous city in Argentina.
Argentina is divided into twenty-three federated states called provinces (Spanish: provincias, singular provincia) and one called the autonomous city (ciudad autónoma) of Buenos Aires, which is the federal capital of the republic (Spanish: Capital Federal) as decided by the Argentine Congress. [1]
The main difference of the map of Argentina is that the Argentine Antarctica is shown in the same scale as the continental Argentine territory, and the Tierra del Fuego Province is in the middle of the map, rather than the bottom. Rubén Címbaro, president of the IGN, said that the idea was to depict Argentina as a bicontinental country. Older ...
Reverted to version as of 13:13, 23 November 2018 (UTC) There is already a version with the Falklands in white at File:Argentina location map (+Falkland).svg for when such a map is needed. 03:37, 24 November 2018