Map of Argentina

Argentina is located in South America. Its territory lies in the southern and western hemispheres, centred near 34.0° S, 64.0° W. It shares land borders with 5 countries — Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay — and also has its own coastline. Within South America, a continent of 12 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, Argentina is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Argentina shares land frontiers with the following 5 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Argentina covers about 2,780,400 km² (1,073,518 sq mi). That makes it the 8th-largest country in the world by area and the 2nd-largest in South America, larger by area than 10 of the continent’s 12 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 46,735,004, the 33rd-largest in the world and the 3rd-largest in South America, accounting for about 11% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Argentina has an average population density of about 17 people per km². Among the 12 countries of South America it stands 3rd by population and 2nd by area.

The seat of government is Buenos Aires, and the official currency is the Argentine peso (ARS, $), and the main official languages are Guaraní and Spanish. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC-03:00.

Argentina carries the ISO country codes AR and ARG, dials on the international calling code +54 and uses the .ar internet domain.

Argentina shares its land borders with 5 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Brazil (capital Brasília, about 213,421,037 people), Chile (capital Santiago, about 20,206,953 people), Bolivia (capital Sucre, about 11,365,333 people), Paraguay (capital Asunción, about 6,109,644 people) and Uruguay (capital Montevideo, about 3,499,451 people).

By area, Argentina is larger than 4 of these neighbours and smaller than 1 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 34.0° S, 64.0° W and opens at zoom level 4, framing Argentina within South America. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Buenos Aires. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Argentina lies about 3,774 km from the equator, in the southern and western hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Argentina keeps a single standard time zone, UTC-03:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit -03:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Argentine peso (ARS, $).

The official languages are Guaraní and Spanish, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +54 and websites commonly use the .ar internet domain.

In short, Argentina is a coastal country in South America, sharing land borders with 5 countries. Its capital is Buenos Aires. Argentina has a population of about 46,735,004 and covers around 2,780,400 km² (1,073,518 sq mi), ranking it 33rd in the world by population and 8th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Argentina.

The flag of Argentina features three equal horizontal bands of light blue, white and light blue. A brown-edged golden sun is centered in the white band.

The flag of Argentina is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.