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Name: Argentina Continent: South America Sub region: Southern Cone Geographic coordinates: 3400S 6400W

Gen. Jos de San Martn, Liberator of Argentina and Per.

Pres. Julio Roca dominated politics and policy from 1880 to 1906.

Gov. Juan Manuel de Rosas during his 182952 regime.

Argentina is located in the southern region of South America. The nation borders Chile to the west and south; the Atlantic Ocean, Uruguay, and Brazil to the east; and Bolivia and Paraguay to the north.

Argentina has a total area of 2,766,890 square kilometers and is the secondlargest nation in South America It is about the size of the United States east of the Mississippi River. The nation's coastline is 4,989 kilometers long. Argentina's land borders total 9,665 kilometers .

The National Pantheon of the Argentina

SEIBO
Seibo

The National Fruit

The National Bird The National Animal

Rufous Hornero

Rank

City

Province

Population

Region

Buenos Aires

City + 31 partidos in Buenos Aires Province

12,789,000

Pampas

Crdoba

Crdoba

1,372,000

Pampas

Rosario

Santa Fe

1,242,000

Pampas

Mendoza

Mendoza

885,000

Cuyo

San Miguel de Tucumn Tucumn

789,000

NOA (northwest)

La Plata

Buenos Aires

732,000

Pampas

Baha Blanca

Buenos Aires

650,000

Pampas

January 1st - New Year's Day Holy Thursday and Holy Friday Changes every year April 4 - Malvinas Islands Memorial May 1st - Labor Day

May 25 - National Holiday June 20 National Flag Day July 9 Independence Day December 25Christmas

Capital of Argentina

Capital of Argentina
Buenos Aires is the capital of Argentina and its largest city and port It is located on the southern shore of the Rio de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent. After the 19th century, Buenos Aires was federalized and removed from Buenos Aires Province in 1880;

Currency of Argentina
Argentina

currency name is Peso. The currency rate of Argentina, 1 $= 3.80954 peso 1 Tk=0.05621 peso

LANGUAGE OF ARGENTINA
The Official Language Of Argentina is Spanish They are also use: Italian German Levantine Arabic

LANGUAGE OF ARGENTINA

An ethnic group is a group of human beings whose members identify with each other, through a common heritage that is real or presumed Languages spoken by members of ethnic groups/communities: English, Italian, German, French, Yiddish, Russian, Polish, Welsh, Armenian and Croatian.

Religion
Roman

Catholic - 76.5% Religiously indifferent - 11.3% Protestant - 9% Jehovah's Witnesses - 1.2% Muslims - 0.9% Jewish - 2%

Roman Chatholic
Religiously indifferent Protestant

Jehovah's Witnesses Muslims

Jewish

Educated Population 77.2% Male 45.7% Female 31.5%

Level Initial Primary Secondary

Schools
16,298 22,196 22,080

Teachers 1
79,721 289,898 133,225

Students
1,324,529 4,683,963 3,372,411

Vocational
Universities
1 excludes 185,776 teachers not classified by level

1,870
85

15,747
117,359

509,134
1,527,310

 Fertile plains of the pampas Lead Zinc Tin Copper Iron ore Manganese Petroleum Uranium

Land use: Arable land: 9% Permanent crops: 1% Permanent pastures: 52% Forests and woodland: 19% Other: 19% Irrigated land: 17000 sq km.

Record high temperature of 52.3 C (126.1 F), was recorded at Villa de Maria, Crdoba on January 25, 1989.

The lowest temperature recorded was 40 C (40.0 F) at Valle de los

Patos Superior, San Juan, July 8, 1966.

PLACE OF INTEREST

Puerto Madero Docklands, Buenos Aires.

San Martin Boulevard, Mendoza

Monument to the Argentine Flag, Rosario

PLACE OF INTEREST

Crdoba city centre

Iguzoa Fall

Monte Fitz Roy in Argentina

 Food Sports Music Arts

Lifestyle

FOOD Music
Tango The Folklore

Pizza Spaghetti and lasagna Parrillada Milanesa Carbonada

Arts

Lifestyle

Sports

Argentina won its first World Cup in 1978

Bus
Train

Tram
Cargo

Taxi
Air Bus

System Of Government
The President Of Argentina
Cristina FARNANDEZ DE KIRCHNER.

The Argentina National Congress

Presidential Representative Democratic Republican Country

Minister of Science and technology Minister of Social Development Minister of Defense Chief of the Cabinet Minister of Foreign Relations

The Ministry of Defense and Army Headquarters, Buenos Aires.

GDP Growth Rate

10.00% 8.00% 6.00% 4.00% 2.00% 0.00% Year 2006 Year 2007 Year 2008 8.50% 8.70% 7.00%

fig: GDP By Sectors

Agriculture Mining

18.60%

9.80%

4% 21.50%

Manufacturing Construction Commerce & tourism

16.10% 9.80% 14.50% 5.90%

Transport & Utilities Business Services Government & Other Services

Distribution Of Argentine GNP

9.2 9 8.8 8.6 8.4 8.2 Year 2008 Year 2007 Year2006 8.53 9.03

8.84

Distribution of Expenses

12.00% 6.40% 6.40% 6.80% 11.60% 11.60% 30.90%

Social security Health Debt service Energy and infrastucture Education Labor programs 14.30% defense Other

Dstribution Of Revenues

12.50% 26.80% 15.60% Value-added taxes Social security Income taxe Customs duties 18.70% Other 26.40%

Export goods by percentage

Soybeans and byproducts aluminum and steel chemicals motor vehicles and parts

11.10% 9.70%

23.40% natural gas and petroleum 4.90% 6.20% 9.30% refined fuels all other (mostly processed agricultural products) cereals (mostly maize and wheat) other industrial products

24.50% 6.50% 4.40%

Import Goods By Percentage

7.50% 12.80%

5.10% Industrial and computing parts 39.40% Industrial supplies Consumer durables Fuels and lubricants Consumer non-durables

35.20%

Distribution Of Inflation Rate

10.00% 8.00% 6.00% 4.00% 2.00% 0.00% Year 2006 Year 2007 Year 2008 9.80% 8.50% 7.20%