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Argentina, [a] officially the Argentine Republic, [b] is a country in the southern half of South America.Argentina covers an area of 2,780,400 km 2 (1,073,500 sq mi), [B] making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourth-largest country in the Americas, and the eighth-largest country in the world.
t. e. The culture of Argentina is as varied as the country geography and is composed of a mix of ethnic groups. Modern Argentine culture has been influenced largely by the Spanish colonial period and the 19th/20th century European immigration (mainly Italian and Spanish), and also by Amerindian culture, particularly in the fields of music and art.
As of the 2022 census [INDEC], Argentina had a population of 46,044,703 [1] - a 15.3% increase from the 40,117,096 counted in the 2010 census [INDEC]. [8] Argentina ranks third in South America in total population and 33rd globally. The population density is 16.5 people per square kilometer - well below the world average of 62 people.
Argentina is a multiethnic society, home to people of various ethnic, racial, religious, denomination, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. [15] [16] [17] As a result, Argentines do not equate their nationality with ethnicity, but with citizenship and allegiance to ...
The history of Argentina can be divided into four main parts: the pre-Columbian time or early history (up to the sixteenth century), the colonial period (1536–1809), the period of nation-building (1810–1880), and the history of modern Argentina (from around 1880). Prehistory in the present territory of Argentina began with the first human ...
Arabs and Levantines. There are 1,300,000–3,500,000 Argentines whose ancestry traces back to any of various waves of immigrants, largely of Levantine cultural and linguistic heritage and/or identity. Most Levantine Argentines are from Lebanese background, originating mainly from what is now Lebanon.
As of the 2022 census [INDEC], some 1,306,730 Argentines (2.83% of the country's population) self-identify as indigenous or first-generation descendants of indigenous peoples. [ 3 ] The most populous indigenous groups were the Aonikenk, Kolla, Qom, Wichí, Diaguita, Mocoví, Huarpe peoples, Mapuche and Guarani. [ 2 ]
Only European immigrants by provinces and territories in Argentina according to the 1914 census (mainly Italians and Spaniards, and to a lesser extent French, Poles, Germans, Jews, Russians, Ukrainians, Lithuanians, etc). The majority of immigrants, since the 19th century, have come from Europe, mostly from Italy and Spain.