REPUBLIC OF ARGENTINA

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AREA
Total 2,780,403 km² (8th largest country in the world)

LANGUAGES: Spanish (Italian, German, French, English and Welsh are widely spoken in many areas)

ETHNIC GROUPS:
90% European (esp. Italian, Spanish also German, French, Polish, British, Irish, Swiss and Croatian),
6% Multiracial (includes Paraguayan, Bolivians, Peruvians),
1% Native American
3% others (Chinese, Korean, afro-caribbean)

RELIGION
Christian 79% (69,4% Catholics,9% Protestants,0,6% Orthodox), Jewish 2%, Muslim 1,5%, Other 17,5% (Atheist, Agnostics)

PRESIDENT
Cristina Kirchner (2008-2011)

INDEPENDENCE from Spain
May Revolution 25 May 1810
British invasions: 1806-1807

POPULATION
- 2008 estimate 40,482,000 (30th)

GDP (PPP) 2007 estimate
- Total $524.140 billion[3] (22nd)

HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX (2007) ▲ 0.869 (high) (38th)

QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX (2008)(IL)
10th