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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. [19] [20] [21] As a result, Argentines do not equate their nationality with ethnicity, but with citizenship and allegiance to ...
A country demonym denotes the people or the inhabitants of or from there; for example, "Germans" are people of or from Germany. Demonyms are given in plural forms. Singular forms simply remove the final s or, in the case of -ese endings, are the same as the plural forms. The ending -men has feminine equivalent -women (e.g. Irishman, Scotswoman).
The Atacama people, also called Atacameño, are indigenous people from the Atacama Desert and altiplano region in the north of Chile and Argentina and southern Bolivia. According to the Argentine Census in 2010, 13,936 people identified as first-generation Atacameño in Argentina.
A person from a flat plains area, to residents of adjacent hill and mountain areas. Gaucho (Argentina) A rural person from Argentinian grasslands. (For Brazilian usage, see "Terms based on specific locations".) Goober (US) A rural person with a "glorious lack of sophistication" (from the slang term for "peanut") Guajiro (Cuba) A rural person ...
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.
In Italian and Venetian, Argentina (masculine argentino) means "(made) of silver, silver coloured", derived from the Latin "argentum" for silver. The earliest description of the region by the word Argentina has been found on a Venetian map in 1536. [4] The Portuguese cartographer Lopo Homem made reference to the place as "Terra Argentea" in a ...
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also: Countries: Argentina: People: This category lists notable Argentina-born people, or people who spent significant time in Argentina. Subcategories.