Argentina,[C] officially the Argentine Republic,[A][D] is a country in the southern half of South America. It covers an area of 2,780,085 km2 (1,073,397 sq mi),[B] making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourth-largest country in the Americas, and the eighth-largest country in the world. Argentina shares the bulk of the Southern Cone with Chile to the west, and is also bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay to the north, Brazil to the northeast, Uruguay and the South At