{"id":367649,"date":"2026-07-17T16:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=367649"},"modified":"2026-07-17T16:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:15:07","slug":"falkland-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/falkland-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"Falkland Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-box-green\">\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>After Argentina&#8217;s 2\u20131 victory over England in the semi-final of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, Lautaro Mart\u00ednez and Giovani Lo Celso celebrated by holding up a banner that read, <em>&#8220;Las Malvinas son Argentinas,&#8221;<\/em> meaning <em>&#8220;The Falkland Islands (Malvinas) are Argentine.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\">About Falkland Islands<\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 276px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.worldatlas.com\/r\/w1200\/upload\/ed\/7e\/b5\/fk-01.png?resize=276%2C276&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Falkland Islands\" width=\"276\" height=\"276\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: World Atlas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Location:<\/strong> They are archipelago in the <strong>South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf and is considered a <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/argentina-to-revive-falklands-issue-in-india\/\">British overseas territory<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>They are situated <strong>483km (300 miles) off the east coast of Argentina.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Capital:<\/strong> The capital is<strong> Stanley (also, Port Stanley). <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Area:<\/strong> They covers a<strong> total area of 12,173 sq.km.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Geography:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"isSelectedEnd\">They are <strong>an archipelago made up of two large islands<\/strong>, <strong>East Falkland and West Falkland<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>776 smaller islands and islets.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"isSelectedEnd\">They have a <strong>rugged coastline, and most of the land is hilly, rocky, and covered with low shrubs and coarse grass.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The <strong>two main islands<\/strong> are separated by <strong>Falkland Sound.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The central areas of both <strong>large islands <\/strong>are covered by hills and low mountains, including the <strong>Wickham Heights and Hornsby ranges.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>Highest Point:<\/strong> The highest point in the archipelago is<strong> Mount Usborne on East Falkland, which rises to 2,312 feet (705 m).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Shallow streams, ponds, and small lakes<\/strong> cover only a <strong>small part of the land. <\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Drowned river valleys along the coast form protected natural harbors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: After Argentina&#8217;s 2\u20131 victory over England in the semi-final of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, Lautaro Mart\u00ednez and Giovani Lo Celso celebrated by holding up a banner that read, &#8220;Las Malvinas son Argentinas,&#8221; meaning &#8220;The Falkland Islands (Malvinas) are Argentine.&#8221; About Falkland Islands Location: They are archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/falkland-islands\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Falkland Islands<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11209,12039,11211],"tags":[11872,10498],"class_list":["post-367649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-geography-in-news","category-knolls","category-places-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}