Buenos Aires

Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires
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.
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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,[1] The Cultural Caipital o Laitin Americae[2]
Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires Location athin Argentinae
Coordinates: 34°36′12″S 58°22′54″W / 34.60333°S 58.38167°W / -34.60333; -58.38167Coordinates: 34°36′12″S 58°22′54″W / 34.60333°S 58.38167°W / -34.60333; -58.38167
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.)[3]
• 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[4]
Website	[www.buenosaires.gov.ar (in Spaingie) bue.gov.ar (in Inglis)

Buenos Aires (Spaingie pronunciation: [ˈbwenoˈsaiɾes]) is the caipital an lairgest ceety o Argentinae, an the seicont-lairgest metropolitan aurie in Sooth Americae, efter São Paulo.^[5] 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.^[3]

1. ↑ Owens, Mitchell. "Travel+Leisure: Buenos Aires Reinventing Itself". Travelandleisure.com. Retrieved 2 Mey 2012.
2. ↑ "Sitio oficial de turismo de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires". Bue.gov.ar. Archived frae the original on 15 Apryle 2012. Retrieved 2 Mey 2012.
3. ↑ ^{a b} "Population projections" (PDF). Archived frae the original (PDF) on 9 Apryle 2014. Retrieved 9 August 2009.
4. ↑ "Desarrollo humano en Argentina / 2010" (PDF). Archived frae the original (PDF) on 21 Mey 2013. Retrieved 24 Februar 2012.
5. ↑ R.L. Forstall, R.P. Greene, and J.B. Pick, "Which are the largest? Why published populations for major world urban areas vary so greatly", City Futures Conference, (University of Illinois at Chicago, July 2004) – Table 5 (p.34)