Language
The official language of the Republic Argentina is Spanish. In Buenos Aires it sometimes adopts forms such as the so called lunfardo, a local slang.

Language: Spanish is the official language. Many also speak English and some, French or German.

Religion
The official religion is the Apostolic Roman Catholic Church , although entire freedom of worship exists. There are also followers of Protestantism, Judaism, Islam, the Orthodox Greek Church, the Orthodox Russian and others.

Religion: 85% Catholic Roman, 7%, Protestant in addition to some small Moslem and Jewish communities.

Currency
The official Argentine currency is the Peso. There are bills of 2, 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 Pesos, and coins of 1 Peso and of 1, 5, 10, 25 and 50 cents.

Symbols
The flag consists of three horizontal stripes: a white centrally located strip with the rising sun and two adjacent sky-blue ones. The national flower is that of ceibo and the national stone, the rodocrosita or " Rose of the Inca ".