Top: Regional: South America: Argentina: Science and Environment: Land and Marine


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Area

total: 2,766,890 sq km
land: 2,736,690 sq km
water: 30,200 sq km

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


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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


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Coastline

4,989 km


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Maritime claims

territorial sea: 12 nm
contiguous zone: 24 nm
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
continental shelf: 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin


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Land use

arable land: 12.31%
permanent crops: 0.48%
other: 87.21% (2001)

Irrigated land: 15,610 sq km (1998 est.)



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