ARGENTINA

Argentina forms the eastern half of South America with a surface area of 2 766 889 km2 and a population of 41 million, of which 13 million live in Buenos Aires. It borders Chile to the west and Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil and Bolivia to the north and east. It also shares the offshore island territory of Tierra del Fuego with Chile.
The country can be divided into four major geographical regions: the Andes to the west (with arid basins, grape-filled foothills, glacial mountains and the Lake District), the fertile Lowland North (with subtropical rainforests), the central Pampas (a flat mix of humid and dry expanses) and Patagonia (a combination of pastoral steppes and glacial regions).