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| Argentina is a
country in
South America, situated between the
Andes
in the west and the southern
Atlantic Ocean in the east and south. It is bordered by
Paraguay and
Bolivia in the north,
Brazil and
Uruguay in the northeast, and
Chile
in the west and south. It also claims the
British overseas territories of the
Falkland Islands (known in Spanish the Islas Malvinas
) and
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. Under the name
of
Argentine Antarctica, it claims around 1,000,000
km² of
Antarctica, overlapping other claims by
Chile
and the
United Kingdom. By area, it is the second largest country of
South America after Brazil and the 8th largest country in the
world. The country is formally named República Argentina (pronunciation) (Argentine Republic), while for purposes of legislation the form Nación Argentina (Argentine Nation) is used.
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