Argentina

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This page was generated on 20 September 2026 at 12:27 UTC. The bundled facts on it were retrieved between 13 July 2026 and 8 August 2026. Aletheia's source record for emergency numbers records no retrieval date, so it is not covered by that range.

This page is being built. Everything below is a block that is in place and empty. Each one says which kind of empty it is, because those are different facts: nobody has looked yet is not the same claim as we looked and there was nothing, and this page will never let one stand in for the other.

Country outlines on Aletheia come from Natural Earth's 1:10-million public-domain boundary set, made by volunteer cartographers and supported by NACIS. Where a border is disputed, the line drawn is one cartographic convention among the competing claims — not a settled fact, and not Aletheia taking a side. Disputes we can source are listed rather than hidden inside the outline.

Locator map of Argentina. Argentina is filled; surrounding countries are drawn in a dimmer tone and nothing is hidden behind them. 1 contested area is marked with hatching: Southern Patagonian Ice Field. 5 parts of it are too small to draw at this scale and are not shown. View spans 85.1°W to 42.1°W and 58.0°S to 18.8°S. Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m.Southern Patagonian Ice Field — status contested; see the list below.

Argentina is filled. The 7 other countries reaching this view are drawn in a dimmer tone — dimmed, not hidden. Unpainted ground is where no boundary in this dataset falls: open water, or land none of them claims.

The hatched area is contested, and Aletheia takes no position on it. The hatching marks where the dispute lies — including where it falls inside the outline — and it is the same set the list below names.

5 parts of Argentina in this source are smaller than a pixel at this scale and are not drawn. Nothing larger than that is missing, and they have not been enlarged to make them visible.

Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m. Disputed areas: Natural Earth (public domain). Equirectangular projection, standard parallel 38.4°S — distances and areas away from that parallel are stretched. View: 85.1°W–42.1°W, 58.0°S–18.8°S.

Disputed areas involving Argentina

One area whose status is contested. Aletheia takes no position on it. It is described in the source’s own words.

Source: Natural Earth’s disputed-areas layer (public domain). The list is not exhaustive, and inclusion or omission is not a judgment about any claim’s merit. What has happened in these places is not described here — that needs a source Aletheia has not yet been able to read.

  1. News sources

    3 sources from Argentinain Aletheia’s registry. Coverage here is covered.

    • Clarín
    • La Nación
    • Buenos Aires Times

    sources not yet assessed

  2. Official alerts

    An official alerting source is connected for Argentina: SMN (AR).

    This says a source is connected — not whether any warning is in force right now. Open Alerts for that.

  3. National legislature

    Argentine National Congress ↗

    Wikidata P856 · link checked and reachable

  4. Local time

    12 time zones.

    How many distinct clocks that is depends on the date. The current time needs JavaScript, so it is not shown here rather than shown wrong.

  5. Conditions at the capital

    Right now in Buenos Aires

    18°C / 64°FMainly clearwind 9 km/h / 5 mph

    Checked 12 minutes ago

    Conditions at the capital, not across the country.

    Weather from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)

    Buenos Aires, 2026-09-20Sunrise 6:45 AM · sunset 6:48 PM12h 03m of daylightWaxing gibbous, 65% lit

  6. At a glance

    ISO code
    ARGuncited
    Driving side
    rightuncited
    Mains voltage
    220 Vuncited
    Capital
    Buenos Airescited
    Official language
    Spanishuncited
    Plug types
    Type C (Europlug), Type I (AS/NZS 3112)cited · letters are the IEC classification
    Official website
    argentina.gob.ar ↗From the source's "official website" statement, kept here because the site is a government portal. We have not tested whether it loads.uncited

  7. Population and economy

    Population

    Population of Argentina: the UN's 2025 estimate is 45,851,378 people. The page shows that figure carried forward at about 18 more an hour. It is a projection, not a count, and the figure shown changes as time passes.

    Not a count. This is the UN's 2025 estimate carried forward at the rate implied by the two most recent published years — arithmetic, not a measurement. Nobody counts a country continuously, and the true figure right now is unknown.

    Where this number comes from
    Base figure
    45,851,378 people
    For the year
    2025 — a mid-year estimate, so it describes 1 July 2025
    Compared with
    45,696,159 people in 2024
    Rate applied
    about 18 more an hour (155,322 a year)
    How that rate was found
    The difference between the 2024 and 2025 estimates, divided by the time between them. It is our arithmetic on two published figures — the source does not publish this rate.
    Carried forward
    0 days beyond the base figure's date
    Source
    UN World Population Prospects and national statistical offices, compiled by the World Bank · source updated 2026-07-13
    The source's own definition
    The values shown are midyear estimates.

    THIS NUMBER IS NOT A MEASUREMENT, AND ITS MOVEMENT IS NOT NEWS. No country counts its population continuously. A census is periodic, and every figure between censuses — including the estimate this starts from — is a projection. What you are watching is that projection's trend applied to the clock on your phone. It moves because time passes, not because anyone was born or died. Treat the digits beyond the first few as arithmetic rather than knowledge: the trend is real, the precision is not.

    Population
    45,851,3782025
    GDP
    683,097,891,6192025
    GDP per capita
    14,8982025
    Life expectancy at birth
    77.5 years2024
    Exports
    15.6%2025
    Imports
    14.8%2025

    Compiled by the World Bank from: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division · source updated 2026-07-13 · each figure is dated because the most recent value was chosen by us, not by the source

  8. In this country's own words

    A motto IS recorded for this country, but not in any of its official languages. Aletheia does not quote a country in a language it does not use officially — the risk is quoting a mis-tagged entry as a nation's own words. That is our rule declining it, not the source failing to record one.

    Also recorded in English and Welsh.

  9. World Heritage Sites

    12 World Heritage Sitesshow all
    1. Los Glaciares National Park · inscribed 1981
    2. Jesuit missions among the Guaraní · inscribed 1983 · shared with Brazil
    3. Iguazú National Park World Heritage Site · inscribed 1984
    4. Cueva de las Manos · inscribed 1999
    5. Valdes Peninsula · inscribed 1999
    6. Ischigualasto / Talampaya Natural Parks · inscribed 2000
    7. Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba · inscribed 2000
    8. Quebrada de Humahuaca · inscribed 2003
    9. Inca road system · inscribed 2014 · shared with Bolivia, Chile and 3 more countries
    10. The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier · inscribed 2016 · shared with Belgium, Switzerland and 4 more countries
    11. Los Alerces National Park · inscribed 2017
    12. Navy Petty-Officers School of Mechanics · inscribed 2023

      The name shown for this site was not chosen. Two or more records carry an inscription-level number for it and give different names, so we show one of them without claiming it is the right one. It is unchosen, not known to be wrong.

    Register from Wikidata (CC0) · in inscription order · links go to UNESCO

  10. Emergency numbers

    • 100listed as: fire department
    • 101listed as: police
    • 117
    • 911

    Shown in numerical order, which is not an order of priority.

    Listed by the source, mostly from ITU-T E.129. We have not dialled these numbers, and where a service is named it is the source's description rather than ours.

  11. Explore this country

  12. Regions

    First-level regions as GeoNames lists them, shown alphabetically · each page computes daylight at the region’s own coordinates

  13. Currency

    ARS

News coverage here is counted from Aletheia’s bundled source registry plus the sources the Host had admitted as of 2026-09-14. A source admitted since that date has not reached this page yet, so this is a floor rather than a total.

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