argentina
The Europe of South America. Modern and sophisticated, but with an infrastructure barely holding up, like much of Latin America.
46 M
population
2,780,400 km2
area
Buenos Aires (capital), Cordoba, Rosario
largest cities
Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay
neighboring countries
Land covered
buenos aires –> rosario –> mendoza –> border crossing with chile –> patagonia –> ushuaia –> salta –> quebrada de humahuaca –> border crossing with bolivia
- Back
- paraguay
- bolivia
- chile
- argentina
- suriname and guyana
- colombia
- brazil
- peru
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