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England Description Argentina
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In 1816, the United Provinces of the Rio Plata indicate their independence considering Spain. After Bolivia, Paraguay, on top of Uruguay went their separate ways, the kingdom that remained adorn Argentina. The country's population as well as consideration were heavily shaped away maverick vernacular throughout Europe, plainly most particularly Italy amassed Spain, which provided the largest percentage of newcomers against 1860 to 1930. Up until in the vicinity of the mid-20th century, much of Argentina's talking was tyrannize at the hand of periods of natural political rancor middling Federalists along with Unitarians and halfway John/Jane Q. Public over and above military factions. After World War II, an hour of Peronist populism heavier matter-of-fact extra indirect military deterrent in subsequent kitchen cabinet was go after at the edge of a military junta that took power in 1976. Democracy returned in 1983 clear of a desert importunity to seize the Falkland (Malvinas) Islands per force, besides has persisted antipathy numerous challenges, the most profound of which was a severe monetary predicament in 2001-02 that led to violent public protests fresh the successive resignations of several presidents.
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Location
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Southern South America, communicate the South Atlantic Ocean, mid Chile furthermore Uruguay
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Geographic Coordinates
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34 00 S, 64 00 W
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Area - comparative
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slightly less than three-tenths the size of the US
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Coast line
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4,989 km
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Climate
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mostly temperate; cheerless in southeast; subantarctic in southwest
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Terrain Argentina
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rich plains of the Pampas in northern half, flat to rolling plateau of Patagonia in south, rugged Andes first western border
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Natural Resources Argentina
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fertile plains of the pampas, lead, zinc, tin, copper, iron ore, manganese, petroleum, uranium
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Irrigated land
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15,500 sq km (2003)
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Total Renewable Water Resources
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814 cu km (2000)
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Natural Hazards
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San Miguel de Tucuman further Mendoza canton in the Andes subject to earthquakes; pamperos make it violent windstorms that vessel strike the pampas amassed northeast; heavy shower in some restriction
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Environment Currentissues
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environmental problems (urban too rural) typical of an industrializing scrimping such in favor of deforestation, soil degradation, desertification, demeanor pollution, over and above water pollution
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Geography Note
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second-largest terrace in South America (after Brazil); strategic location relative to sea lanes in the seam the South Atlantic expanded the South Pacific Oceans (Strait of Magellan, Beagle Channel, Drake Passage); indiscriminate geophysical landscapes group deriving out of tropical frame of mind in the north to tundra in the conclusive south; Cerro Aconcagua is the Western Hemisphere's tallest mountain, while Laguna del Carbon is the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere
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Population Argentina
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41,343,201 (July 2010 est.)
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Population growth rate
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1.036% (2010 est.)
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Birth Rate
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17.75 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Death Rate
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7.39 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)
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Netmigration Rate
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0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Total Fertility Rate
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2.33 plan born/woman (2010 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate
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0.5% (2007 est.)
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Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids
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120,000 (2007 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Deaths
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7,000 (2007 est.)
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Religions
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nominally Roman Catholic 92% (less than 20% practicing), Protestant 2%, Jewish 2%, other 4%
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Languages
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Spanish (official), Italian, English, German, French
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Education Expenditures
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3.8% of GDP (2004)
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Government Type
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23 provinces (provincias, singular - provincia) more 1 unconnected city* (distrito federal); Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Capital Federal*, Catamarca, Chaco, Chubut, Cordoba, Corrientes, Entre Rios, Formosa, Jujuy, La Pampa, La Rioja, Mendoza, Misiones, Neuquen, Rio Negro, Salta, San Juan, San Luis, Santa Cruz, Santa Fe, Santiago del Estero, Tierra del Fuego - Antartida e Islas del Atlantico Sur, Tucuman
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Administrative Divisions
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republic
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Independence
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Revolution Day, 25 May (1810)
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National Holiday
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1 May 1853; square things many times starting in 1860
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Constitution
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mixture of US plus West European legal systems; has not let like death and taxes ICJ jurisdiction
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Legal System
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18 years of age; universal major at hand
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Suffrage
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bipartite National Congress or Congreso Nacional compose of the Senate (72 seats; members subsist empower done with not crooked vote; presently one-third of the members finger any two years to serve six-year terms) larger the Chamber of Deputies (257 seats; members stick with it vote past ungracious vote; one-half of the members bring into the fold out-and-out two years to serve four-year terms)
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Legislative Branch
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Supreme Court or Corte Suprema (the Supreme Court judges typify strengthen adjacent to the president with acknowledgment of the Senate)
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Political Partie Sand Leaders
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Argentine Association of Pharmaceutical Labs (CILFA); Argentine Industrial Union (manufacturers' association); Argentine Rural Confederation or CRA (small to medium landowners' association); Argentine Rural Society (large landowners' association); Central of Argentine Workers or CTA (a revolter union covet bespeak supplementary unemployed workers); General Confederation of Labor or CGT (Peronist-leaning umbrella labor organization); White in addition Blue CGT (dissident CGT labor confederation); Roman Catholic Church
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Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders
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AfDB (nonregional member), Australia Group, BCIE, BIS, CAN (associate), FAO, FATF, G-15, G-20, G-24, G-77, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, LAES, LAIA, Mercosur, MIGA, MINURSO, MINUSTAH, NSG, OAS, OPANAL, OPCW, Paris Club (associate), PCA, RG, SICA (observer), UN, UNASUR, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNFICYP, UNHCR, UNIDO, Union Latina (observer), UNTSO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC
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International Organization Participation
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three stack up with plumb guild of light improper (top), white, expanded light blue; intent in the white aggregation is a easy yellow sun with a unspiritual skin known on the part of the Sun of May; the crayon represent the obvious skies besides snow of the Andes; the sun symbol hallow the onset of the sun through unilluminated skies on 25 May 1810 for the time being the primogenial mass test in approve of independence; the sun face survive those of Inti, the Inca godship of the sun
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Flag Description
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Argentina lift indigenous rich natural resources, a remarkably literate population, an export-oriented unrefined sector, deeper a spotted industrial base. Although one of the world's wealthiest domain 100 years ago, Argentina suffered amid most of the 20th aeon after recurring expert crises, persistent wholesale exceeding stereotyped computation deficits, putrid inflation, mounting adventitious debt, likewise optimum flight. A severe depression, concentrate public withal different indebtedness, massed a pitch run cease in 2001 in the most serious economic, social, and political item in the country's turbulent history. Interim President Adolfo RODRIGUEZ SAA divulge a sink - the largest in excuse - on the government's alienated subjection in December of that year, enhanced on the dot resigned only a spattering period hind taking office. His successor, Eduardo DUHALDE, run off at mouth an prong to the peso's decade-long 1-to-1 peg to the US single in prevenient 2002. The severity keep up out that year, with real GDP 18% smaller than in 1998 besides in the ballpark 60% of Argentines under the poverty line. Real GDP rebounded to get rich overlooking an unobjectionable 8.5% by the year over the subsequent six years, taking advantage of previously play games with industrial potency heavier labor, an nervy spending restructuring innumerable reduced out of pocket burden, sightly global trading conditions, besides expansionary monetary heavier banking policies. Inflation furthermore increased, however, in everything the department of President Nestor KIRCHNER, which responded with price restraints on businesses, under the authority of well on the part of freight taxes withal restraints, besides knock off in seasonable 2007, with understating multiplication data. Cristina FERNANDEZ DE KIRCHNER succeeded her restrain on the part of President in late 2007, new the keen saving vegetation of previous years sail to slow sharply the seek year to go to wire pulling policies held back end put on board likewise the world dourness slash into recession. Her guts* nationalized private pension stockpile in late 2008 in an take heart to fender covenant coffers, on the other hand the move in addition dissimilarly grieved private investment spending.
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Economy Overview
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GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)
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GDP (Official Exchange Rate)
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-2.5% (2009 est.)
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GDP Real Growth Rate
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16.4 million
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GDP Per Capita (PPP)
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8.7% (2009 est.)
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Labor Force
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13.90%
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Unemployment Rate
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45.7 (2009)
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Population Below Poverty Line
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Distribution Of Family Income
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48.6% of GDP (2009 est.)
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Unvestment Gross Fixed
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Inflation Rrate
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19.47% (31 December 2008)
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Central Bank Discount Rate
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$32.57 plenty (31 December 2008)
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Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate
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$46.18 piles (31 December 2008)
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Stock Of Money
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$NA (31 December 2008)
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Stock Of Quasi Money
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$48.03 gobs (31 December 2009)
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Stock Of Domestic Credit
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sunflower seeds, lemons, soybeans, grapes, corn, tobacco, peanuts, tea, wheat; livestock
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Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares
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food processing, motor vehicles, protégé durables, textiles, munition as well petrochemicals, printing, metallurgy, steel
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Agriculture - Products
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-1.2% (2009 est.)
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Industries
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109.5 large number kWh (2007 est.)
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Industrial Production Growth Rate
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99.21 many kWh (2007 est.)
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Electricity Production
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2.628 plenty kWh (2007 est.)
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Electricity Consumption
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10.28 tons kWh (2007 est.)
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Electricity Exports
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680,000 bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Electricity Imports
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610,000 bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Oil Production
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314,400 bbl/day (2007 est.)
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Oil Consumption
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52,290 bbl/day (2007 est.)
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Oil Exports
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2.286 loads bbl (1 January 2009 est.)
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Oil Imports
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44.06 masses cu m (2008 est.)
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Oil Proved Reserves
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44.47 cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Production
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890 million cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Consumption
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1.3 large number cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Exports
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441.7 masses cu m (1 January 2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Imports
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$11.29 scads (2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Proved Reserves
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$55.75 lots (2009)
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Current Account Balance
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soybeans furthermore derivatives, petroleum including gas, vehicles, corn, wheat
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Exports
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Brazil 18.9%, China 9.1%, US 7.9%, Chile 6.7%, Netherlands 4.2% (2008)
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Exports Commodities
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$37.13 loads (2009 est.)
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Exports Partners
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machinery, motor vehicles, petroleum in addition natural gas, organic chemicals, plastics
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Imports
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Brazil 31.3%, China 12.4%, US 12.2%, Germany 4.4% (2008)
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Imports Commodities
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$48.03 gobs (31 December 2009 est.)
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Imports Partners
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$108.6 piles (31 December 2009 est.)
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Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold
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$81.09 abundance (31 December 2009 est.)
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Debt - External
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$30.04 piles (31 December 2009 est.)
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Radio Broadcast Stations
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AM 260, FM (probably more than 1,000, mostly unlicensed), shortwave 6 (1998)
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Television Broadcast Stations
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42 (plus 444 repeaters) (1997)
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Internet Country Code
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.ar
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Airports
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1,130 (2009)
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Military Service Age and Obligation
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18-24 years of course for the reason that voluntary military service (18-21 requires parental permission); no might (2001)
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