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Argentina: map and facts
Argentina is in South America. It has about 45.9 million people (2025), the 35th largest population. It covers 2,780,400 km², the 8th largest by area. That is about 16 people per km². Its highest point is Cerro Aconcagua, at 6,962 m. The longest river on its map is the Parana, 2,570 km from source to mouth.
Facts
- Population: 45,851,378 (2025, World Bank)
- Area: 2,780,400 km² (2024, World Bank)
- Capital: Buenos Aires
- Highest point: Cerro Aconcagua, 6,962 m (Wikidata)
- Forest: 17.1% of the land (2024, World Bank)
Rivers
The longest rivers on the map of Argentina, with the length of each whole river (Wikidata):
- Parana: 2,570 km
- Uruguay: 1,790 km
- Desaguadero: 1,515 km
- Pilcomayo: 1,500 km
- Bermejo: 1,450 km
- Colorado: 1,200 km
- Salado: 1,150 km
- Chubut: 810 km
- Salado: 640 km
- Deseado: 615 km
Also on the map: San Juan, Limay, Santa Cruz, Tercero, Chico, Negro, Neuquén, Mendoza, Dulce and Chico.
Mountains and landscapes
Its highest peaks:
- Cerro Aconcagua: 6,962 m (its highest point)
- Nevado Ojos del Salado: 6,893 m
- Volcan Llullaillaco: 6,723 m
- Cerro Tupungato: 6,570 m
- Volcan Domuyo: 4,709 m
- Monte Tronador: 3,491 m
- Monte Fitz Roy: 3,406 m
- Cerro Champaquí: 2,790 m
Mountain ranges: Andes.
Plateaus, plains, deserts and other regions: Gran Chaco, Pampas, Patagonia, Altiplano, Chaco Austral, Valdes Peninsula and Entre Ríos.
Land
Land cover seen from satellites (NASA MODIS, 2024): grassland 29.5%, open shrubland 26.1%, savanna 14.5%, farmland 12.6%, bare ground 8%, wooded savanna 3.2%.
Landforms, worked out from the height of the land (USGS GMTED2010): plains 49.4%, hills 17.4%, plateaus 16.1%, mountains 9.9%, high mountains 7.2%.
Forests covered 17.1% of its land in 2024, down from 20.5% in 1990 (World Bank).
Minerals and fuels
- World #5 in lithium among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #10 in silver among the countries USGS lists (2025)
Neighbours
Argentina shares land borders with Bolivia, Brazil, Brazilian Island, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay on this map.
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Sources
India’s boundaries are drawn according to India’s official position, simplified for small-scale maps (data: Natural Earth, India view). Each figure shows its year and source; some are rounded. Data release 2026.2.
- Natural Earth (naturalearthdata.com), public domain. Boundaries follow India's official position (Natural Earth's India point of view). Terms
- GMTED2010 courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey (Danielson and Gesch 2011, USGS Open-File Report 2011-1073). Terms
- Friedl, M., Sulla-Menashe, D. (2022). MODIS/Terra+Aqua Land Cover Type Yearly L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V061. NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC. doi:10.5067/MODIS/MCD12Q1.061. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL): UN Population Division, national statistical offices (2025 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Surface area (AG.SRF.TOTL.K2): FAO (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Forest area (% of land area) (AG.LND.FRST.ZS): FAO, FAOSTAT (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- Wikidata (CC0): names, capitals, peak heights and river lengths, checked by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- Credit: U.S. Geological Survey, Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 data release (doi:10.5066/P1WKQ63T). Terms
- Landforms worked out by Make Me Smarter from GMTED2010.
- Some figures corrected by Make Me Smarter from published references: Australian Bureau of Statistics; Atlas of Canada; CIA World Factbook (archived); FAO; FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025; FSM Statistics; GeoNames; Gilbertson & Gilbertson's GPS surveys of national high points; INEGI (Mexico); Peaklist.org; PeakVisor; Government of the Pitcairn Islands; Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program; Statistics Finland; UN Demographic Yearbook; UN World Population Prospects 2024; Wikidata; Wikipedia.
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