Introduction
Buenos Aires
[key], city and federal district (2021 pop. 2,890,151; metropolitan area
15,257,673), the capital of Argentina, E Argentina, on the Río de la
Plata. Buenos Aires is inhabited mostly by people of Spanish and Italian
extraction, but there are many residents of French, British, German, Eastern
European, and Syrian background and some communities of Paraguayans and
other Latin Americans.
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