Est. Population: 40,301,927 (July 2007 est.)

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

Literacy Rate: 97.2%

Southern South America, bordering the South Atlantic Ocean, between Chile and Uruguay

white (mostly Spanish and Italian) 97%, mestizo (mixed white and Amerindian ancestry), Amerindian, or other non-white groups 3%

people information

nominally Roman Catholic 92% (less than 20% practicing), Protestant 2%, Jewish 2%, other 4%

The Free Methodist Church was begun in Argentina in the mid-90s by the Ricardo Guerrero family.  They have overseen the planting of some ten churches in the area around Carmen de Areco.

 

CIA World Factbook: Argentina