Argentina

Argentina

Argentina ranks 20th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Austria, Ukraine, and Belgium. Memorable people born in present day Argentina include Che Guevara, Pope Francis, and Jorge Luis Borges. Memorable people who died in Argentina include Diego Maradona, Eva Perón, and Astor Piazzolla. Argentina has been the birth place of many soccer players and politicians and the death place of many soccer players and politicians.

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of 2,780,400 km2 (1,073,500 sq mi), making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourth-largest country in the Americas, and the eighth-largest country in the world. It shares the bulk of the Southern Cone with Chile to the west, and is also bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay to the north, Brazil to the northeast, Uruguay and the South Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Drake Passage to the south. Argentina is a federal state subdivided into twenty-three provinces, and one autonomous city, which is the federal capital and largest city of the nation, Buenos Aires. The provinces and the capital have their own constitutions, but exist under a federal system. Argentina claims sovereignty over a part of Antarctica, the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. Read more on Wikipedia