The 1996 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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      Economy———

      Economic overview: Economic activity is limited to the exploitation of natural resources, including petroleum, natural gas, fish, and seals.

      Transportation———————

      Ports: Churchill (Canada), Murmansk (Russia), Prudhoe Bay (US)

      Transportation note: sparse network of air, ocean, river, and land routes; the Northwest Passage (North America) and Northern Sea Route (Eurasia) are important seasonal waterways

      Communications———————

      Telephone system:

       international: no submarine cables

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      @Argentina————

      Map—

      Location: 34 00 S, 64 00 W—Southern South America, bordering

       the South Atlantic Ocean, between Chile and Uruguay

      Flag——

      Description: three equal horizontal bands of light blue (top), white, and light blue; centered in the white band is a radiant yellow sun with a human face known as the Sun of May

      Geography————

      Location: Southern South America, bordering the South Atlantic

       Ocean, between Chile and Uruguay

      Geographic coordinates: 34 00 S, 64 00 W

      Map references: South America

      Area:

       total area: 2,766,890 sq km

       land area: 2,736,690 sq km

       comparative area: slightly less than three-tenths the size of the US

      Land boundaries:

       total: 9,665 km

       border countries: Bolivia 832 km, Brazil 1,224 km, Chile 5,150 km,

       Paraguay 1,880 km, Uruguay 579 km

      Coastline: 4,989 km

      Maritime claims:

       contiguous zone: 24 nm

       continental shelf: 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin

       exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

       territorial sea: 12 nm

      International disputes: short section of the boundary with Uruguay

       is in dispute; short section of the boundary with Chile is

       indefinite; claims British-administered Falkland Islands (Islas

       Malvinas); claims British-administered South Georgia and the South

       Sandwich Islands; territorial claim in Antarctica

      Climate: mostly temperate; arid in southeast; subantarctic in

       southwest

      Terrain: rich plains of the Pampas in northern half, flat to

       rolling plateau of Patagonia in south, rugged Andes along western

       border

       lowest point: Salinas Chicas −40 m

       highest point: Cerro Aconcagua 6,962 m

      Natural resources: fertile plains of the pampas, lead, zinc, tin,

       copper, iron ore, manganese, petroleum, uranium

      Land use:

       arable land: 9%

       permanent crops: 4%

       meadows and pastures: 52%

       forest and woodland: 22%

       other: 13%

      Irrigated land: 17,600 sq km (1989 est.)

      Environment:

       current issues: erosion results from inadequate flood controls and

       improper land use practices; irrigated soil degradation;

       desertification; air pollution in Buenos Aires and other major

       cities; water pollution in urban areas; rivers becoming polluted due

       to increased pesticide and fertilizer use

       natural hazards: Tucuman and Mendoza areas in the Andes subject to

       earthquakes; pamperos are violent windstorms that can strike the

       Pampas and northeast; heavy flooding

       international agreements: party to - Antarctic-Environmental

       Protocol, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Endangered

       Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the

       Sea, Marine Dumping, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship

       Pollution, Wetlands; signed, but not ratified - Desertification,

       Marine Life Conservation

      Geographic note: second-largest country in South America (after

       Brazil); strategic location relative to sea lanes between South

       Atlantic and South Pacific Oceans (Strait of Magellan, Beagle

       Channel, Drake Passage)

      People———

      Population: 34,672,997 (July 1996 est.)

      Age structure:

       0–14 years: 28% (male 4,904,380; female 4,707,293)

       15–64 years: 63% (male 10,851,004; female 10,834,593)

       65 years and over: 9% (male 1,414,412; female 1,961,315) (July 1996

       est.)

      Population growth rate: 1.1% (1996 est.)

      Birth rate: 19.41 births/1,000 population (1996 est.)

      Death rate: 8.62 deaths/1,000 population (1996 est.)

      Net migration rate: 0.18 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1996 est.)

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