Argentina is a sovereign state, and federal organized as a
representative republic, located in the southeast corner of America. Its territory is divided into 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires, the nation's capital and seat of government 40 million people federal. For its size, 2,780,400 km ², is the second largest state in South America, fourth in the America and eighth in the world, considering only the area under the effective sovereignty. His American mainland, which covers much of South America, bordered on the north by Bolivia and Paraguay, northeast Brazil, west and south by Chile, Uruguay and east and the Atlantic Ocean. History. The official name of the country is Argentina Republic, by ellipsis of the noun; they say, properly, Argentina. However, widespread use is without the article " the " , so that in fact the name is often expressed simply as " Argentina '' . Natural Regions. View of the Pampas in a photograph taken 70 miles north of Santa Rosa. The Argentine mainland is located between the Andes Mountains, the South Atlantic and the Antarctic continent. In the northern regions of dense vegetation are , in some sectors it is wooded and jungle International is composed of the Chaco region and the Ibera wetlands. Climate. Due to the latitudinal extent and variety of landscapes, Argentina has a wide variety of climates. Overall, the climate is predominantly temperate with extremes ranging from subtropical in the north and a sub polar in the far south. The north is characterized by will see.