Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, Nation Argentina for many legal purposes, is a South American country, second in size in the continent to Brazil and eighth in the world. Argentina occupies a continental surface area of 2,766,890 km 1,078,000 sq mi between the Andes mountain range in the west and the southern Atlantic Ocean in the east and south. It is bordered by Paraguay and Bolivia in the north, Brazil and Uruguay in the northeast, and Chile in the west and south. The country claims the British controlled territories of the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. Under the name of Argentine Antarctica, it claims 969,464 km² of Antarctica, overlapping other claims made by Chile and the United Kingdom. Various overseas parts of the British Empire had the colonial title of Province in a more Roman sense, such as the Province of Canada and the Province of South Australia the latter to distinguish it from the penal 'colonies' elsewhere in Australia. Equally, for instance, Mozambique was a "province" as a Portuguese colony.