South America · Capital Buenos Aires

Argentina

Argentina's best placing is 8th of 194 for land area.

Best placing: #8Land area
Top 10 placings: 2 / 17
Population: 45.9 million
Land area: 2.7 million km²

Every ranking

Best placings first. The bar shows how far up the ranking Argentina is.

Land area

#8 of 194

2,736,690 km² of land

2nd in South America · World Bank · 2023

Airports

#10 of 193

764 airports

2nd in South America · Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2025

Land area per person

#19 of 194

0.060 km² of land per person

World Bank · 2023

Forest

#20 of 194

282,462 km² of forest

6th in South America · World Bank · 2023

Railways

#16 of 135

17,866 km of railway

2nd in South America · Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2018

GDP

#24 of 182

683,097,891,619 US$ (current prices)

2nd in South America · World Bank · 2025

Coastline

#24 of 151

4,989 km of coastline

3rd in South America · Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Population

#35 of 195

45,851,378 people

3rd in South America · World Bank · 2025

Airports per person

#52 of 192

16.66 airports per million people

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2025

Forest per person

#57 of 194

0.0062 km² of forest per person

World Bank · 2023

Railways per person

#40 of 134

389.65 km of railway per million people

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2018

GDP per person

#61 of 182

14,898 GDP per person (US$)

World Bank · 2025

Railways by area

#75 of 133

6.53 km of railway per 1,000 km²

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2018

Airports by area

#116 of 191

2.79 airports per 10,000 km²

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2025

Rainfall

#133 of 179

591 mm of precipitation per year

12th in South America · World Bank · 2022

Forest by area

#152 of 194

10.3 % of land area covered by forest

World Bank · 2023

Population by area

#176 of 194

16.75 people per km²

World Bank · 2025

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