Argentina

Interesting Facts About Argentina

• Argentina is the second-largest country in South America by area, covering 2,780,085 km².
• Buenos Aires, the capital, is home to about 3 million people, with the Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area reaching around 13 million inhabitants.
• Argentina is highly urbanised, with 92% of its population living in cities.
• The average genetic ancestry of Argentines is 79% European (mainly Italian and Spanish), 18% indigenous, and 4.3% African.
• Over 25 million Argentines, almost 60% of the population, have some partial Italian origins.
• In 2010, Argentina became the first country in Latin America to legalise same-sex marriage.
• The population density of Argentina is 15 persons per square kilometre, well below the world average of 50 persons.
• Argentina is in the midst of a demographic transition to an older and slower-growing population, with a median age of 31.9 years as of 2015.

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