Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is the second largest country in South America in the third quarter of life, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires, the capital of the country. It is the eighth largest country in the world in territorial area and the largest among the Spanish-speaking nations, although Mexico, Colombia and Spain, which have smaller territory, are more populous. The continental area of ​​Argentina is between the Andes to the west and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. It borders Paraguay and Bolivia to the north, Brazil and Uruguay to the northeast and Chile to the west and south. Argentina claims a part of Antarctica, overlapping the claims of Chile and the United Kingdom on the Antarctic continent, even after all claims have been suspended by the 1961 Antarctic Treaty. The country also claims the Falkland Islands

And South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, which are administered by the United Kingdom as British overseas territories.