Argentina
Buenos Aires · Southern Cone
Home of tango, yerba mate, and the unmistakable Rioplatense accent.
Snapshot
Argentina's Spanish sounds different the moment you hear it — a musical, Italian-tinged intonation, the "sh" sound where others say "y", and vos in place of tú. Waves of Italian and Spanish immigration shaped the food, the slang (lunfardo), and the rhythm of Buenos Aires.
- Capital
- Buenos Aires
- Population
- ~46 million
- Currency
- Argentine peso (ARS)
- Language
- Spanish (Rioplatense)
Did you know?
- ✨Aconcagua, in Argentina, is the highest mountain in the Americas at 6,961m.
- ✨Tango was born in the working-class neighborhoods of Buenos Aires and Montevideo.
- ✨Argentines are among the world's top consumers of beef per person.
- ✨Pope Francis, the first Latin American pope, is from Buenos Aires.