The next country I plan on doing is Argentina. The capital city of Argentina is Buenos Aires and the country itself is surrounded by the countries Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia, and Chile. It has a population of about 36 million and about half of the population lives in Buenos Aires. The official language is Spanish and the currency is Peso. Some of the things that they produce are leather goods, woven and knitted garments, silverware and wine. Due to the fact that Argentina is in the Southern hemisphere they have winter in the opposite months in which we have summer and with a vast land range, there is always someplace to be at any time of year. Between 1870s and 1920s Argentina boosted up economically. The sheep industry flourished giving landowner's a fortune through the export of wool and meat. Through the 1920s Argentina was know as "the breadbasket of the world" and was the sixth richest nation. Everything changed when the Crash of 1929 came. In 1976, 30,000 people were killed and or disappeared during the "Dirty War". The country was left with its economy in ruins in the 1980s.
This is Argentina's flag. The blue white and blue colors represent the blue sky parting to reveal white clouds.
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