Buenos Aires (Spaingie pronunciation: ) is the caipital an lairgest ceety o Argentinae, an the seicont-lairgest metropolitan aurie in Sooth Americae, efter São Paulo.
It is locatit on the wastren shore o the estuary o the Río de la Plata, on the sootheastren coast o the Sooth American continent. Greater Buenos Aires conurbation, which an aa includes several Buenos Aires Province destricts, constitutes the third-lairgest conurbation in Latin Americae, wi a population o aroond 13 million.
Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires | |
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Autonomous Ceety | |
Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires Autonomous Ceety o Buenos Aires | |
Clockwise frae top: skyline o the ceety at dusk, the National Congress, the Woman's Bridge, tango dancers in San Telmo, the Pink Hoose, the Metropolitan Cathedral, Cabildo, the Obelisk, Colón Theatre, the Recoleta Cemetery, the Tres de Febrero Park wi the Planetarium, an Caminito in La Boca. | |
Eik-name(s): The Queen o la Plata, The Sooth American Paris, The Caipital o Tango, The ceety o books, The Paris o the Pampas, The Cultural Caipital o Laitin Americae | |
Coordinates: 34°36′12″S 58°22′54″W / 34.60333°S 58.38167°W 58°22′54″W / 34.60333°S 58.38167°W | |
Kintra | Argentinae |
Established | 1536, 1580 |
Govrenment | |
• Teep | Autonomous ceety |
• Chief o Govrenment | Horacio Rodríguez Larreta |
Area | |
• Autonomous Ceety | 203 km2 (78.5 sq mi) |
• Laund | 203 km2 (78.5 sq mi) |
• Metro | 4758 km2 (1837 sq mi) |
Population (2010 census.) | |
• Autonomous Ceety | 2,891,082 |
• Density | 14,000/km2 (37,000/sq mi) |
• Metro | 12,801,364 |
• Metro density | 2,700/km2 (7,000/sq mi) |
Demonym(s) | porteño (m), porteña (f), bonaerense |
Time zone | UTC−3 (ART) |
Area code(s) | 011 |
HDI (2010) | 0.876 – very high |
Website | [www |
Buenos Aires is twinned wi the follaein ceeties:
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