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South America > Argentina > Geography

ARGENTINE GEOGRAPHY STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Area > Comparative
slightly less than three-tenths the size of the US
Area > Land 2,736,690 sq km Time series [9th of 238]
Area > Total 2,766,890 sq km Time series [15th of 250]
Capital city with population
Buenos Aires (city) - 3,000,000; (metro) - 12,000,000
Climate
mostly temperate; arid in southeast; subantarctic in southwest
Forested Land 12.7% [137th of 193]
Geographic coordinates 34 00 S, 64 00 W Time series
Land boundaries > Border countries
Bolivia 832 km, Brazil 1,261 km, Chile 5,308 km, Paraguay 1,880 km, Uruguay 580 km
Land use > Arable land 10.03% Time series [111st of 258]
Largest city Buenos Aires
Largest city population 11,802,000 [7th of 174]
Largest city with population
Buenos Aires (city) - 3,000,000; (metro) - 12,000,000
Location
Southern South America, bordering the South Atlantic Ocean, between Chile and Uruguay
Map references
South America
Natural resources
fertile plains of the pampas, lead, zinc, tin, copper, iron ore, manganese, petroleum, uranium
Population density 13.42 people per sqkm [195th of 256]
Population density > people per sq. km 14.16 people/m² Time series [174th of 204]
Precipitation 1,147 mm [27th of 95]
Surface area > sq. km 2,780,400 km² Time series [8th of 206]
tallest mountains > Mountain Aconcagua

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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, 22 August 2006 ; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook, City Population, CIA World Factbook, World Gazetteer, Official government websites.; FAO; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook; Heal The World Foundation.; World Development Indicators database; Wikipedia: List of tallest mountains by country

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Argentina, Argentine Republic, Republica Argentina

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COMMENTARY     

Not approving
24th April 2009 		This place really is not helpful at all.
I need a real site with geography. this will not be accepted in class.
Edria Murray
Staff Editor
5th April 2005 		In response to Carole:

The average annual precipitation for Argentina is 1147mm. However the Argentine Republic is a large country with an area of 2.766 million sq km and large regional variations in rainfall.

The Eastern region receives between 500 and 1000mm per year, with most of the rain in this region falling over only a few days. In general rainfall decreases both further west and further south. In the almost desert-like Argentine Patagonia (to the East of the southern Andes) less than 250 mm of rain falls per year.

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