Argentina

Quick facts

How to spot Argentina from satellite imagery

Argentina stretches roughly 3,700 kilometres from the subtropical north along the border with Bolivia and Paraguay down to Tierra del Fuego at the southern tip of South America. That north-south orientation passes through almost every climate zone on Earth except the tropics proper — from cane fields and yerba mate plantations in Misiones to vineyards and orchards in Mendoza to wheat and cattle on the Pampas to wind-blasted sheep ranches in Patagonia to glaciers and beech forests in Tierra del Fuego. The country covers nearly 2.8 million square kilometres and shows up often in satellite-imagery games.

What makes Argentina interesting to identify is that its main signatures are subtle. There is no single iconic landform like Egypt's Nile or Japan's island chains — just a series of distinctive but recognisable regional looks that, taken together, lock the country in. This guide walks through each one.