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Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of 2,780,400 km² (1,073,500 sq mi), 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. It 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 country has its roots in Spanish colonization 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 declaration and fight for independence (1810–1818) was followed by an extended civil war that lasted until 1861, culminating in the country's reorganization as a federation. The country thereafter enjoyed relative peace and stability, with several waves of European immigration, mainly 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. It maintains the second-largest economy in South America, and 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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Mariano Moreno (September 23, 1778 – March 4, 1811) was an Argentine lawyer, journalist, and politician. He played a decisive role in the Primera Junta, the first national government of Argentina, created after the May Revolution.

Although he was not prominently involved in the May Revolution that deposed Cisneros, he was appointed as secretary of war of the new government, the Primera Junta. Along with

Gazeta de Buenos Ayres, and translated Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Social Contract into Spanish. (Full article...

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Spanish American Wars of Independence. With this army, composed of both Argentines and Chilean expatriates, he made the Crossing of the Andes and liberated Chile from royalist control.

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Image 1Guaraní girl in Yrapú, Misiones Province. (from Indigenous peoples in Argentina)
Image 2Javier Milei served as President of Argentina since 2023. (from History of Argentina)
Image 3The training ship Sarmiento and the Ministry of Defense, Buenos Aires (from History of Argentina)
Image 4The 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
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Image 5Portrait of José de San Martín (from History of Argentina)
Image 6Lionel Messi is the football player with the most titles in history. (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 7Mauricio Macri served as President of Argentina from 2015 to 2019. (from History of Argentina)
Image 8The Tucumán Government Palace is the executive office building of the Government of the Tucumán Province. (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 9Alberto Fernández served as President of Argentina from 2019 to 2023. (from History of Argentina)
Image 10The haystacks (1911) by Martín Malharro. He is considered the introducer of Impressionism in Argentina. (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 11Monument to the
Rosario (from History of Argentina
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Image 12Carlos Gardel is the most famous representative of Tango. (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 13Carlos Menem served as President of Argentina from 1989 to 1999. (from History of Argentina)
Image 14Marta Minujín's Tower of Babel (2011) (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 15Map 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 16Under General Roca, the Conquest of the Desert extended Argentine power into Patagonia. (from History of Argentina)
Image 17Artifacts 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 18Néstor Kirchner served as President of Argentina from 2003 to 2007. His presidency marked the ideology called Kirchnerism. (from History of Argentina)
Image 19Argentine literary figures: Julio Cortázar, Victoria Ocampo, Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 20Indigenous family in Cachi, Salta Province. (from Indigenous peoples in Argentina)
Image 21Governor Juan Manuel de Rosas by Cayetano Descalzi around 1841 (from History of Argentina)
Image 22Viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata in 1777 (from History of Argentina)
Image 23Payada in a bar. Painting by Carlos Morel. (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 24Iconic Argentine actresses in the 1961 Berlin International Film Festival: Isabel Sarli, Olga Zubarry, Tita Merello and Mirtha Legrand (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 25President Arturo Frondizi (from History of Argentina)
Image 26President Juan Perón (1946) (from History of Argentina)
Image 27Florencio Molina Campos, Argentine illustrator and painter. (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 28The interior of the Teatro Colón. (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 29President Hipólito Yrigoyen (from History of Argentina)
Image 30President Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (from History of Argentina)
Image 31Police intervention in the 2001 riots (from History of Argentina)
Image 32Cristina Fernández de Kirchner served as President of Argentina from 2007 to 2015. (from History of Argentina)
Image 33
Emanuel Ginóbili, one of the most recognized Argentine basketball players. (from Culture of Argentina
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Image 34The ousting of President
Arturo Illia was initially broadly supported but later deeply regretted by the Argentine population. (from History of Argentina
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Image 35Raúl Alfonsín's presidential inauguration, 1983 (from History of Argentina)
Image 36Known as the "voice of the voiceless ones", Mercedes Sosa was one of the preeminent exponents of nueva canción. (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 37President Julio Argentino Roca, the central political figure of the PAN Hegemony years (from History of Argentina)
Image 38Argentine junta leader Jorge Rafael Videla meeting U.S. President Jimmy Carter in September 1977 (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 40Tehuelche Cacique Casimiro Biguá, c. 1864 (from Indigenous peoples in Argentina)
Image 41The
muralists Berni, Castagnino, Colmeiro, Spilimbergo and Urruchúa. (from Culture of Argentina
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... that at age 14, footballer Lara Esponda was the youngest goalkeeper to debut in the top division of women's football in Argentina?
... that a 1956 eruption of Bristol Island drove Argentina to abandon a hut they had built on Thule Island?
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1857: Opening of Teatro Colón
1927: Birth of comedian Tato Bores
1956:
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2003:
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The rights of Argentina to the sovereignty of the Malvinas is undeniable. Even so, one of the most powerful nations of the world, abusing its force, keeps them under their control.

— Alfredo Palacios

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... that although the 1996 reunion of
live album Homenaje
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... that
tango "Cambalache
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... that the telenovela Mis amigos de siempre features actors Osvaldo Laport and Soledad Silveyra as a couple, as in the older telenovela Campeones de la vida?
...that vice president Amado Boudou lives in the luxury apartment complex Madero Center (pictured)?
...that Eduardo Arnold wrote an unpublished book about the early life of president Néstor Kirchner?
...that Spanish singer Álex Ubago sang the opening theme of the telenovela Somos familia, and toured in Argentina during the premiere?
...that the Argentine telenovela Sres. Papis will include scenes shot at the 2014 FIFA World Cup?
...that Argentine actresses Mercedes Morán and Mercedes Scápola, who are mother and daughter, play as mother and daughter in the telenovela Guapas?