Argentina covers roughly 1,073,500 square miles (or about 2.78 million square kilometers for the metric crowd). That makes it the eighth-largest country in the world. To put that in perspective, you could drop five entire Texases inside Argentina and still have room for a few Iowa cornfields.
But numbers on a map are cold. Let’s warm them up with a story.
The Pizza Delivery Test
Imagine you order a pizza in Buenos Aires, the capital. The driver says it’ll be 30 minutes. Now imagine your friend in the very north, near the border with Bolivia, orders the same pizza—but from the same shop. It would take about 24 hours for that pizza to travel from Buenos Aires to the northern tip. That’s longer than a Netflix binge session.
By the time that pizza arrived, your friend would be so hungry they’d probably eat the box. That’s Argentina: vast enough to ruin a pizza delivery record.
