Argentina vs Indonesia

Argentina is 1.5 times larger than Indonesia — 2,780,400 against 1,904,569 km². Indonesia is 6.2 times more populous than Argentina — 285,721,236 against 45,851,378 people.

Side by side

Population density

Indonesia is 9.1 times more densely populated than Argentina — 150 against 16 people per km². Density is where area and population interact, and it often reverses the impression the headline figures give — a large country with a small population can feel emptier than a small crowded one by an enormous margin.

Practical differences

• They drive on opposite sides — Argentina on the right, Indonesia on the left.
• Different currencies: the Argentine peso and the Indonesian rupiah.
• Indonesia spans 3 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
• Different continents — South America and Asia.

Argentina

The eighth-largest country in the world and the largest Spanish-speaking one. Aconcagua at 6,961 m is the highest mountain outside Asia; the Laguna del Carbón, about 1,000 km away, is 105 m below sea level and the lowest point in the western hemisphere. Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego is the southernmost city of any size on Earth.

Indonesia

The largest archipelago in the world: official surveys count more than 17,000 islands, of which around 6,000 are inhabited, spread over 5,100 km of ocean. Indonesia sits on the Pacific Ring of Fire and has about 130 active volcanoes, more than any other country. It also holds more of the world's remaining tropical peatland than anywhere except the Congo basin.

Neutral facts only. Nothing here addresses politics, government, economics or which country is preferable in any respect — population is the one figure that dates, and it carries its year.