Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...
has the following types of country subdivisions:
Administrative divisions
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Geographical regions of Argentina
The provinces of Argentina are often grouped into eight geographical regions.
Regions
From West to East and North to South, these are:
*Argentine Northwest: Jujuy, Salta, Tucumán, Catamarca
*Gran Chaco: Formosa, Chaco, Santiago del Estero
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(6) which are used only traditionally
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Provinces
A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions outsi ...
(23, ''provincia'')
*Autonomous city (1, ''ciudad autónoma'')
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Departments / Partidos 376/135
**The province of Mendoza divides its territory into departments, which are further divided into districts (''distritos''), which are called sections (''secciones'') in the Capital Department.
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Municipalities
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
(''municipios'')
*Village, Town, City
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Neighbourhoods of Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, autonomous city and capital of Argentina, is composed of forty-eight neighborhoods (locally known as ''barrios''). Since 2008, the city is also legally divided into communes, each one including one or more ''barrios''. Among the most ...
(''barrios'')
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Communes of Buenos Aires
The city of Buenos Aires is administratively divided into fifteen ''comunas'', unlike the Province of Buenos Aires, which is subdivided into ''Partidos of Buenos Aires, partidos'', or the rest of Argentina, in which the second-order administrative ...
(comprise one or more barrios of BsAs.)
See also
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Government of Argentina
The government of Argentina, within the framework of a federal system, is a presidential representative democratic republic. The President of Argentina is both head of state and head of government. Executive power is exercised by the President. ...
References
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Lists of subdivisions of Argentina