Resistencia (pronounced: [resisˈtensja]) is the capital and largest city of the province of Chaco, in northeastern Argentina. At the 2001 census, the population of the city proper was 274,490 inhabitants. It is the anchor of a rather larger metropolitan area, Greater Resistencia, which comprises three more municipalities and has a 2008 population estimate of 377,000. This conurbation is the largest in the province, and the eleventh most populous in the country.