National symbols

Flag: Horizontal tricolor flag of sky blue and white with the Sun of May in the center

Argentina Flag

Emblem: National emblem with two shaking hands and a liberty pole surrounded by laurel wreath and sun

Argentina Emblem

Trivia & facts

  • There are over 3,300 football clubs with one of the world's highest registered players per capita.
  • Iguazu Falls, one of the world's three great waterfalls, consists of approximately 275 falls.
  • The standard cooking level for ordering steak is "a punto (medium)".
  • Buenos Aires Metro (Subte) was the first underground railway in the Southern Hemisphere (opened 1913).
  • Per capita mate tea consumption is about 6kg per year, the world's largest.
  • The world's first animated feature film "El Apóstol" was an Argentine production from 1917.
  • Has the most Polo World Cup victories.
  • Ushuaia is known as the "southernmost city in the world".
  • Mendoza Province alone accounts for about 60% of domestic wine production.
  • The national flower Ceibo blooms crimson flowers every November.