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Know Argentina
Argentina is an enormous country,
eighth largest in the world, and second only to
Brazil in terms of size and population in South
America. The country is surrounded by Chile
to the west, and Uruguay, Paraguay,
Brazil, Bolivia, and the South Atlantic
to the north and to the east.
Argentina also shares the offshore
island territory of Tierra del
Fuego with Chile, and continues to
dispute the ownership of the Islas
Malvinas (known as the Falkland
Islands to the British). In the
early 1980's this dispute led to
the short-lived Falklands War.
 To the north,
Argentina has a wonderfully diverse topography
which is affected greatly by both latitude and
altitude. While most of Argentina lies within
South America's temperate zone, climates range
from tropical in the north to sub-polar in the
south. In general, Argentina can be divided
into six geographical zones: the fertile
central Pampas, marshy Mesopotamia in the
northeast, the densely forested Chaco
region of the north, high plateaus in
the northwest, the mighty Andes to the
west, and the stunningly beautiful
windswept plateaus of Patagonia.
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