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Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the Southern Cone of South America. It covers an area of 2,780,085 km² (1,073,397 mi²), 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. Argentina shares the bulk of the Southern Cone with Chile to the west, and is also bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay to the north, Brazil to the northeast, Uruguay and the South Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Drake Passage to the south. Argentina is a federal state subdivided into twenty-three provinces, and one autonomous city, which is the federal capital and largest city of the nation, Buenos Aires. The provinces and the capital have their own constitutions, but exist under a federal system. Argentina claims sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, and a part of Antarctica.

The earliest recorded human presence in modern-day Argentina dates back to the Paleolithic period. The Inca Empire expanded to the northwest of the country in pre-Columbian times. The modern country has its roots in Spanish colonisation of the region during the 16th century. Argentina rose as the successor state of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, a Spanish overseas viceroyalty founded in 1776. The Argentine Declaration of Independence on July 9 of 1816 and the Argentine War of Independence (1810–1825) were followed by an extended civil war that lasted until 1880, culminating in the country's reorganisation as a federation. The country thereafter enjoyed relative peace and stability, with several subsequent waves of European immigration, mainly of Italians and Spaniards, influencing its culture and demography.

Argentina is a regional power, and retains its historic status as a middle power in international affairs. A major non-NATO ally of the United States, Argentina is a developing country with the second-highest HDI (human development index) in Latin America after Chile. Its economy is the second-largest in South America, and it is a member of G-15 and G20. Argentina is also a founding member of the United Nations, World Bank, World Trade Organization, Mercosur, Community of Latin American and Caribbean States and the Organization of Ibero-American States. (Full article...)

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The COVID-19 pandemic in Argentina is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). As of 5 August 2026, a total of 10,119,594 people were confirmed to have been infected, and 130,850 people were known to have died because of the virus.

On 3 March 2020, the virus was confirmed to have spread to Argentina. On 7 March 2020, the Ministry of Health confirmed the country's first documented death, a 64-year-old man who had travelled to Paris, France, who also had other health conditions; the case was only confirmed as positive after the patient's demise. (Full article...)

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The horneros, also known as ovenbirds are members of the genus Furnarius in the family Furnariidae, native to South America.

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Image 1Governor Juan Manuel de Rosas by Cayetano Descalzi around 1841 (from History of Argentina)
Image 2President Julio Argentino Roca, the central political figure of the PAN Hegemony years (from History of Argentina)
Image 3The changing state of Argentina. The light green area was allocated to indigenous peoples, the light pink area was the Liga Federal, the hatched areas are subject to change during the period. (from History of Argentina)
Image 4Argentine literary figures: Julio Cortázar, Victoria Ocampo, Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares. (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 5Alberto Fernández served as President of Argentina from 2019 to 2023. (from History of Argentina)
Image 6Payada in a bar. Painting by Carlos Morel. (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 7Emanuel Ginóbili, one of the most recognized Argentine basketball players. (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 8Viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata in 1777 (from History of Argentina)
Image 9Cristina Fernández de Kirchner served as President of Argentina from 2007 to 2015. (from History of Argentina)
Image 10President Arturo Frondizi (from History of Argentina)
Image 11Map of the East Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and Strait of Magellan Dispute. In blue and green are the boundaries claimed by Argentinian and Chilean historians respectably as uti possidetis iuris in Patagonia. (from History of Argentina)
Image 12The ousting of President Arturo Illia was initially broadly supported but later deeply regretted by the Argentine population. (from History of Argentina)
Image 13President Hipólito Yrigoyen (from History of Argentina)
Image 14Population pyramid of Indigenous Argentines in 2022. (from Indigenous peoples in Argentina)
Image 15Monument to the Falklands War fallen, Rosario (from History of Argentina)
Image 16Iconic Argentine actresses in the 1961 Berlin International Film Festival: Isabel Sarli, Olga Zubarry, Tita Merello and Mirtha Legrand (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 17The interior of the Teatro Colón. (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 18Carlos Gardel is the most famous representative of Tango. (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 19Javier Milei served as President of Argentina since 2023. (from History of Argentina)
Image 20Artifacts at the Pío Pablo Díaz Museum in Cachi, Salta Province. One of several in Argentina devoted to the ethnology of Indigenous peoples. (from Indigenous peoples in Argentina)
Image 21The training ship Sarmiento and the Ministry of Defense, Buenos Aires (from History of Argentina)
Image 22Police intervention in the 2001 riots (from History of Argentina)
Image 23Argentine junta leader Jorge Rafael Videla meeting U.S. President Jimmy Carter in September 1977 (from History of Argentina)
Image 24Distribution of Native Argentines by province according to the 2022 census (from Indigenous peoples in Argentina)
Image 25The Tucumán Government Palace is the executive office building of the Government of the Tucumán Province. (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 26Under General Roca, the Conquest of the Desert extended Argentine power into Patagonia. (from History of Argentina)
Image 27Lionel Messi is the football player (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 28alt=Flag of La Rioja (from Indigenous peoples in Argentina)
Image 29Néstor Kirchner served as President of Argentina from 2003 to 2007. His presidency marked the ideology called Kirchnerism. (from History of Argentina)
Image 30Portrait of José de San Martín (from History of Argentina)
Image 31The haystacks (1911) by Martín Malharro. He is considered the introducer of Impressionism in Argentina. (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 32Guaraní girl in Yrapú, Misiones Province. (from Indigenous peoples in Argentina)
Image 33Florencio Molina Campos, Argentine illustrator and painter. (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 34The frescoed dome of Galerías Pacífico was painted by muralists Berni, Castagnino, Colmeiro, Spilimbergo and Urruchúa. (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 35Marta Minujín's Tower of Babel (2011) (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 36President Juan Perón (1946) (from History of Argentina)
Image 37Known as the "voice of the voiceless ones", Mercedes Sosa was one of the preeminent exponents of nueva canción. (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 38Raúl Alfonsín's presidential inauguration, 1983 (from History of Argentina)
Image 39The asado (1888), by Ignacio Manzoni. Asado is considered a national dish, and is typical of Argentine families to gather on Sundays around one. (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 40Carlos Menem served as President of Argentina from 1989 to 1999. (from History of Argentina)
Image 41Mauricio Macri served as President of Argentina from 2015 to 2019. (from History of Argentina)
Image 42Population of Indigenous people in Greater Buenos Aires according to the 2022 census. (from Indigenous peoples in Argentina)
Image 43El Ateneo Grand Splendid in Buenos Aires. (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 44President Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (from History of Argentina)
Image 45Tehuelche Cacique Casimiro Biguá, c. 1864 (from Indigenous peoples in Argentina)

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... that Manuel García de Sena's 1811 translation of U.S. founding documents into Spanish influenced the first constitutions of Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay and Venezuela?
... that the mother of a man who was murdered by Martín Ríos said that the case opened a social debate in Argentina on the difference between psychosis and psychopathy?
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1774 Manuel de Sarratea, diplomat, politician and soldier is born.
1811 The Primera Junta absolves General Manuel Belgrano of all charges in the Court Martial for the defeat at the Battle of Tacuarí.

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We want Argentina to be peaceful, powerful and sovereign and a mass of unity and happiness like nowhere in the world. We want the welfare of workers, the dignity of the poor and the greatness of this country that Perón has given us and that we all defend as the fairest, the freest and the most sovereign of the earth.

— Eva Perón

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...that Argentina is in a period of fiscal austerity?
...that painter and sculptor Roberto Aizenberg has been called the "best-known" orthodox surrealist in Argentina?
...that beef is a common element in the works of the New Realist painter Carlos Alonso?
...that the Argentinian anarchist movement was the strongest anarchist movement in South America?
...that Paraguayan actor Arnaldo André used to slap telenovela actresses who worked with him?
...that Enrique Angelelli was an Argentine Catholic bishop killed during the Dirty War?
...that in the mid-nineteenth century the Argentine Confederation successfully resisted a five-year naval blockade (pictured) by France and the United Kingdom?
...that Bernabé Aráoz (pictured), the only President of the short-lived Republic of Tucumán, was executed by firing squad?

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