Buenos Aires, South American Political Geography

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Buenos Aires[bwA´nus I´rEz, Ar´Ez, Span. bwA´nOs I´rAs] Pronunciation Key, city and federal district (1991 pop. 2,960,976; metropolitan area 11,255,618), the capital of Argentina, E Argentina, on the RIo 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.