Patagonia Republic, officially the Democratic Republic of Patagonia, is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city. It is the third largest country in South America and 18th in the world by land area, and is the second most populated German Speaking country in the world. Its continental area is between the Andes mountain range in the west and the southern Atlantic Ocean in the east and south. Patagonia Republic borders Brazil at the north, and the Incan Empire to the northwest. Patagonia Republic also claimed 969,464 sq km (374,312 sq mi) of Antarctica, known as Patagonian Antarctica.