Capital: Buenos Aires

Continent: South America

Location: Southern South America, bordering the South Atlantic Ocean, between Chile and Uruguay

Climate: mostly temperate; arid in southeast; subantarctic in southwest

Population: 39,921,833 (July 2006 est.)

Languages: Spanish (official), English, Italian, German, French

Religions: nominally Roman Catholic 92% (less than 20% practicing), Protestant 2%, Jewish 2%, other 4%

Currency: Argentine peso