Argentine Geography and Nature

Provinces, Cities and Wildlife

25 practice questions, each with the answer and an explanation.

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Random questions from this topic, one at a time. You see the answer and the explanation straight after each one.

All 25 questions

  1. What is the capital of Argentina?
  2. Which province is the largest by area?
  3. Which province is the smallest by area?
  4. Which city, planned and founded in 1882, is the capital of Buenos Aires Province?
  5. Which city in Santa Fe province, on the Parana river, houses the Monument to the Flag?
  6. How many provinces does Argentina have, not counting the autonomous capital city?
  7. Which city is the capital of Misiones province?
  8. Which province includes Ushuaia, Rio Grande and a claim to Antarctic territory?
  9. Which city, founded in 1553, is nicknamed the Mother of Cities and is the oldest continuously inhabited city?
  10. Which city is the capital of Chaco province?
  11. Which two provincial capitals are linked by the General Belgrano Bridge over the Parana?
  12. Which city is the capital of Rio Negro province, near the mouth of the river?
  13. Rawson is the capital of which Patagonian province?
  14. Which small bird, famous for its mud nests, is the national bird?
  15. Which tree with red flowers, found along the Parana and Uruguay rivers, is the national flower?
  16. Which large flightless bird roams the Pampas and Patagonian plains?
  17. Which big cat is known in Argentina as the yaguarete?
  18. Which wild relative of the llama roams Patagonia and the Andes?
  19. Which large bird with a wingspan over three metres nests in the Andes?
  20. Where does a large colony of Magellanic penguins breed on the Chubut coast?
  21. Which conifer, called pehuen, grows in Neuquen and is sacred to the Mapuche-Pehuenche people?
  22. Which tree of the Chaco gives hard wood and tannin and is named for breaking axes?
  23. Which pairing of province and capital is correct?
  24. Which province touches Paraguay, Brazil and Uruguay?
  25. Which subtropical province is the main region for growing yerba mate?

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