Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Buenos Aires
- Region
- Americas, South America
- Population
- 45,851,378 (2025)
- Area
- 2,766,890 km²
- Currency
- Argentine peso (ARS)
- Languages
- Spanish, English, Italian, German, French
- Calling code
- +54
- Internet domain
- .ar
- ISO codes
- AR, ARG, 032
- Time zone
- UTC-3:00 to UTC-3:00
- United Nations
- Member state
- Postal code pattern
- @####@@@ (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
Argentina covers about 2,766,890 square kilometres. By area it ranks 9th among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than India and a little larger than Kazakhstan. It shares a land border with 5 neighbours: Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay. Its centre lies at about 34° south, 64° west, in the southern hemisphere.
Neighbours
People
About 45.9 million people live in Argentina (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 35th most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure, with about 0.56 percent of the world's people. On average there are 17 people to each square kilometre. About 92 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 78 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: Spanish, English, Italian, German, French, Guarani. A person from Argentina is called Argentine.
Money and economy
The currency is the Argentine peso (code ARS, symbol $). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 683 billion (2025), which is about US$ 14,898 for each person (2025).
Time
Argentina spans 12 time zone areas, from UTC-3:00 to UTC-3:00. Clocks stay the same all year: there is no daylight saving time.
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Offsets are for January 2026. See Time Zones for a converter.
Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Buenos Aires | 2,891,082 |
| Córdoba | 2,106,734 |
| Rosario | 948,312 |
| Mar del Plata | 593,337 |
| San Miguel de Tucumán | 548,866 |
| Salta | 520,683 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in South America
Colombia, Ecuador, Falkland Islands, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.