Argentina is a
South American
country, constituted as a
federation
of twenty-three provinces and an autonomous city. It is second in size on the continent to
Brazil
and
eighth
in the world. Argentina occupies a continental surface area of ,,
km²
(,,
sqmi
) between the
Andes
mountain range
in the west and the southern
Atlantic Ocean
in the east and south. It is bordered by
Paraguay
and
Bolivia
in the north,
Brazil
and
Uruguay
in the northeast, and
Chile
in the west and south. The country claims the
British
controlled territories of the
Falkland Islands
(
Spanish
:
Islas Malvinas
) and
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
. Argentina also claims ,km² (,sqmi) of
Antarctica
, known as
Argentine Antarctica
, overlapping other claims made by
Chile
and the
United Kingdom
.
Argentina has the highest
Human Development Index
level and
Gross Domestic Product
(GDP) per capita in
purchasing power parity
in
Latin America
and is the th largest in the world.
The country is currently classified as an
Upper-Middle Income Country
or as a secondary
emerging market
by the
World Bank
.
Argentina's nominal GDP makes it the st largest economy in the world.
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