GENERAL INFORMATION  IOC Code: ARG  Country: Argentina  Continent: Americas  President: Néstor Carlos Kirchner   Capital: Buenos Aires    Largest City:  Buenos Aires  Currency:  Peso (ARS)  Official languages: Spanish  Motto: In Union and Liberty  POPULATION (1 January 2006)  Population: 39 921 833  GDP/ inhabitant (in US $): 14 087  Density (inhabitants/km2): 13   Average age (in years): 29  Life expectancy (in years): 75.48  COMMUNICATION  Internet code: .ar   Calling code: +54

 DESCRIPTION
Argentina is the second-largest country in South America and the eighth-largest country in the world.

It occupies a continental surface area of 2,791,810 km² (1,078,000 sq mi) and is located 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. It also claims the British overseas territories of the Falkland Islands (Spanish: Islas Malvinas) and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. Under the name of Argentine Antarctica, it claims 969,464 km² (374,312 sq mi) of Antarctica, overlapping other claims by Chile and the United Kingdom.

The country is formally named the Argentine Republic but for purposes of legislation, the form Nación Argentina (Argentine Nation) is used.

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