Stretches from subtropical jungle to Antarctic ice, and contains both the highest and lowest points in the southern hemisphere.
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Argentina
Argentine Republic
South America
ยท South America
0Population
2.78Mkmยฒ of land
$9.91KGDP / person
Buenos AiresCapital
- ISO codes
- AR ยท ARG
- Density
- 16 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Guaranรญ, Spanish
- Currency
- Argentine peso (ARS)
- Dial code
- +54
- Internet domain
- .ar
- Time zones
- 12
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 33.5010ยฐ S, 64.1730ยฐ W
- Demonym
- Argentine
- UN region
- Americas ยท South America
- Economy
- Emerging region: G20
- Income group
- Upper middle income
- Total GDP
- $445.45B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 5
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By the numbers
How Argentina stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
31st
of 242 ยท 0.59% of world population
Land area
9th
of 242 ยท 1.85% of world land
GDP per person
105th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
202nd
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Argentina
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 44,938,712 people, the 31st largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.59 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 2,780,400 kmยฒ, making it the 9th largest country here - about 11.5 times the size of the United Kingdom.
Population density is about 16 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Buenos Aires, at 34.60ยฐ S, 58.40ยฐ W, with a metropolitan population of about 12,795,000.
Shares land borders with 5 countries: Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Spans 12 time zones, from America/Argentina/Buenos Aires to America/Argentina/Ushuaia.
The currency is the Argentine peso (ARS, symbol $).
Has 2 official languages: Guaranรญ and Spanish.
Local time
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Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
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Buenos Aires
Ciudad de Buenos Aires
34.6006ยฐ S, 58.3995ยฐ W
12.8M
2
Cรณrdoba
Cรณrdoba
31.3980ยฐ S, 64.1842ยฐ W
1.45M
3
Rosario
Santa Fe
32.9492ยฐ S, 60.6683ยฐ W
1.2M
4
Mendoza
Mendoza
32.8814ยฐ S, 68.8186ยฐ W
893K
5
Tucumรกn
Tucumรกn
26.8141ยฐ S, 65.2186ยฐ W
830K
6
Mar del Plata
Ciudad de Buenos Aires
38.0000ยฐ S, 57.5800ยฐ W
555.9K
7
Salta
Salta
24.7834ยฐ S, 65.4166ยฐ W
512.69K
8
Santa Fe
Santa Fe
31.6239ยฐ S, 60.6900ยฐ W
489.51K
9
San Juan
San Juan
31.5500ยฐ S, 68.5200ยฐ W
447.05K
10
Posadas
Misiones
27.3578ยฐ S, 55.8851ยฐ W
357.12K
๐ Peaks
Aconcagua
6,961 m
Fitz Roy
3,405 m
๐งญ Worth the trip
Iguazu Falls
Nature
275 separate falls in a horseshoe nearly 3 km wide, with the Devil's Throat swallowing half the river.
Land neighbours
5 countries share a border with Argentina.