Argentina | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-13

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Argentina


00:03:39 1 Name and etymology
00:06:49 2 History
00:06:58 2.1 Pre-Columbian era
00:08:15 2.2 Colonial era
00:10:06 2.3 Independence and civil wars
00:12:46 2.4 Rise of the modern nation
00:16:46 2.5 Infamous Decade
00:17:54 2.6 Peronist years
00:19:59 2.7 Military dictatorship, the Dirty War and defeat in the Falklands War
00:26:02 2.8 20th—21st centuries, Kirchner era
00:29:40 3 Geography
00:31:59 3.1 Biodiversity
00:33:57 3.2 Climate
00:35:56 4 Politics
00:36:05 4.1 Government
00:38:24 4.2 Provinces
00:40:38 4.3 Foreign relations
00:42:47 4.4 Armed forces
00:45:44 5 Economy
00:47:39 5.1 Industry
00:50:09 5.2 Transport
00:53:39 5.3 Media and communications
00:55:25 5.4 Science and technology
00:59:47 5.5 Tourism
01:00:35 6 Demographics
01:02:31 6.1 Ethnography
01:05:30 6.2 Genetics studies
01:06:35 6.3 Languages
01:08:59 6.4 Religion
01:10:53 6.5 Urbanization
01:12:21 6.6 Education
01:13:48 6.7 Health care
01:15:39 7 Culture
01:17:18 7.1 Literature
01:19:16 7.2 Music
01:21:52 7.3 Theatre
01:24:19 7.4 Cinema
01:27:27 7.5 Visual arts
01:29:06 7.6 Architecture
01:30:29 7.7 Sport
01:34:17 7.8 Cuisine
01:35:23 7.9 National symbols
01:36:54 8 See also



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Argentina (Spanish: [aɾxenˈtina]), officially named the Argentine Republic (Spanish: República Argentina), is a country located mostly in the southern half of South America. Sharing the bulk of the Southern Cone with Chile to the west, the country 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. With a mainland area of 2,780,400 km2 (1,073,500 sq mi), Argentina is the eighth-largest country in the world, the fourth largest in the Americas, and the largest Spanish-speaking nation. The sovereign state is subdivided into twenty-three provinces (Spanish: provincias, singular provincia) and one autonomous city (ciudad autónoma), Buenos Aires,  which is the federal capital of the nation (Spanish: Capital Federal) as decided by Congress. The provinces and the capital have their own constitutions, but exist under a federal system. Argentina claims sovereignty over part of Antarctica, the Falkland Islands (Spanish: Islas Malvinas), and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
The earliest recorded human presence in modern-day Argentina dates back to the Paleolithic period. The country has its roots in Spanish colonization of the region during the 16th century. Argentina rose as the successor state of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, a Spanish overseas viceroyalty founded in 1776. The declaration and fight for independence (1810–1818) was followed by an extended civil war that lasted until 1861, culminating in the country's reorganization as a federation of provinces with Buenos Aires as its capital city. The country thereafter enjoyed relative peace and stability, with several waves of European immigration radically reshaping its cultural and demographic outlook. The almost-unparalleled increase in prosperity led to Argentina becoming the seventh wealthiest nation in the world by the early 20th century.Following the Great Depression in the 1930s, Argentina descended into political instability and economic decline that pushed it back into underdevelopment, though it remained among the fifteen richest countries for several decades. Following the death of President Juan Perón in 1974, his wife Isabel Martínez de Perón ascended to the presidency. She was overthrown in 1976 by a U.S.-backed coup which installed a right-wing military dictatorship. The military government persecuted and murdered numerous political critics, activists, and leftists in the Dirty War, a period of state terrorism that lasted until the election of Raúl Alfonsín as President in 1983. Several of the junta's leaders were later convicted of their crimes and sentenced to imprisonment. 
Argentina retains its historic status  ...