Argentina

Argentina   / ˌ ɑr dʒ ən ˈ t <span style="border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;" title="/iː/ long 'e' in 'bead'">iː <span class="IPA" style="font-family:'LucidaSansUnicode','ArialUnicodeMS';">n <span class="IPA" style="font-family:'LucidaSansUnicode','ArialUnicodeMS';"><span style="border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;" title="/ə/ 'a' in 'about'">ə <span class="IPA" style="font-family:'LucidaSansUnicode','ArialUnicodeMS';" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/ , officially the Argentine Republic<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Nombre_8-0" style="line-height:1em;">[8]  (Spanish: República Argentina <span class="IPA" style="font-family:'LucidaSansUnicode','ArialUnicodeMS';" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[reˈpuβlika aɾxenˈtina] ), is one country of America, located in South America, bordered by Chile to the west and south, Bolivia and Paraguay to the north and Braziland Uruguay to the northeast. Argentina claims sovereignty over part of Antarctica, the Falkland Islands (Spanish: Islas Malvinas) andSouth Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;font-family:sans-serif;">The country is a federation of 23 provinces and the autonomous city of Buenos Aires, its capital and largest city. It is the eighth-largest country in the world by land area and the largest among Spanish-speaking nations. Argentina is a founding member of theUnited Nations, Mercosur, the Union of South American Nations, the Organization of Ibero-American States, the World Bank Groupand the World Trade Organization, and is one of the G-15 and G-20 major economies.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;font-family:sans-serif;">A recognized Southern Cone power,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9" style="line-height:1em;">[9] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10" style="line-height:1em;">[10] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11" style="line-height:1em;">[11] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-12" style="line-height:1em;">[12] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-13" style="line-height:1em;">[13] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-14" style="line-height:1em;">[14] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-15" style="line-height:1em;">[15]  and middle power,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Wurst_16-0" style="line-height:1em;">[16]  Argentina is Latin America's third-largest economy,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-17" style="line-height:1em;">[17] with a "very high" rating on the Human development index.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-HDI_7-1" style="line-height:1em;">[7]  Within Latin America, Argentina has the fifth highest nominal GDP per capita and the highest in purchasing power terms.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-GDPppp_18-0" style="line-height:1em;">[18]  Analysts<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-19" style="line-height:1em;">[19]  have argued that the country has a "foundation for future growth due to its market size, levels of foreign direct investment, and percentage of high-tech exports as share of total manufactured goods", and it is classed by investors as middle emerging economy.