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Argentina

Standards
Road Traffic:right side
Electricity:
Voltage:220V
Frequency:50 Hz
Plug types:C, I,
Note:*Neutral and line wires are reversed
from that used in Australia and elsewhere.
TV Systems:
System:PAL N
DVD-Region: 4
Geography
Location: Southern South America, bordering the South Atlantic Ocean, between Chile and Uruguay
Area:
total: 2,766,890 sq km
land: 2,736,690 sq km
water: 30,200 sq km
Climate: mostly temperate; arid in southeast; subantarctic in southwest
Terrain: rich plains of the Pampas in northern half, flat to rolling plateau of Patagonia in south, rugged Andes along western border
Economy
GDP: $518.1 billion (2005 est.)
GDP growth rate: 8.7% (2005 est.)
GDP per capita: $13,100 (2005 est.)
Inflation rate: 9.6% (2005 est.)
Currency: Argentine peso (ARS)
Exchange rates: Argentine pesos per US dollar - 2.9037 (2005), 2.9233 (2004), 2.9006 (2003), 3.0633 (2002), 0.9995 (2001)
People
Population: 39,921,833 (July 2006 est.)
Growth rate: 0.96% (2006 est.)
Religions: nominally Roman Catholic 92% (less than 20% practicing), Protestant 2%, Jewish 2%, other 4%
Languages: Spanish (official), English, Italian, German, French
Government
Capital:
name: Buenos Aires
time difference: UTC-3 (2 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
Independence: 9 July 1816 (from Spain)
Note: Information on Argentina was mainly sourced from CIA's World Factbook and may represent an American point of view. To learn more about Argentina, please visit one of the links below.
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