| Argentine Republic República Argentina | ||||||
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 Location of Argentina in South America
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| Capital | Buenos Aires | |||||
| Official languages | Spanish | |||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism | |||||
| Government | Parliamentarian republic | |||||
| - | Prime-Minister | Gabriela Castelhano | ||||
| - | Vice Prime-Minister | Hugo Monteiro | ||||
| - | Minister of Parlamento del Povo | Victor Buarte | ||||
| Population | ||||||
| - | Estimate | 103,494,122 | ||||
| GDP (PPP) | 2021 estimate | |||||
| - | Total | ▲ 5,854,122,555 (8th) | ||||
Argentina, officially República Argentina is a country located in southeastern South America, where it borders Chile in the west and Brazil and Bolivia in the north and northeast of the country. It has access to the sea from the Atlantic Ocean. It is made up of 23 provinces, its capital and largest cities being Buenos Aires. The country is the third largest in Latin America, surpassed only by the Mexican Empire and Brazil, is also the third largest country in territorial extension in the Latin Union.
Argentina claims a part of Antarctica, overlapping the claims of Chile and the Kingdom of Portugal on the Antarctic continent, even after all claims were suspended by the 1967 Antarctic Treaty. The country has a maritime island, the Falkland Islands, where after the French defeat in the Great World War. With the 1969 coup d'état, Ruan Perion transformed the country into a great power in means of transport and human development, leaving office in 1985 where he succeeded to his wife. At the end of the 20th century, the country had an oil crisis, causing a political crisis as well. In 2000, it hosted the world cup, known for some corruption scandals. The country had a great economic boom in 2010, where the Argentine GDP reached 1 trillion to 3 trillion. With the second economic boom, the country became a regional power, where it invested the money in heavy weapons under Fernandez's government.