Buenos Aires

Argentina

Buenos Aires, officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southwest of the Río de la Plata. Buenos Aires is classified as an Alpha− global city, according to the GaWC 2024 ranking. The city proper has a population of 3.1 million and its urban area has a population of 16.7 million, making it the 21st most populous metropolitan area in the world.

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Country: Argentina
Population: 12,795,000
Latitude: 34.6° S
Longitude: 58.4° O

Which way is Buenos Aires from…

From Paris, Buenos Aires lies at 227° to the south-west, 11,051 km as the crow flies.

Paris	227° south-west	11,051 km
London	225° south-west	11,128 km
New York	167° south	8,526 km
Madrid	222° south-west	10,046 km
Rome	232° south-west	11,152 km
Montreal	167° south	9,037 km
Saint-Denis, Réunion	229° south-west	10,701 km

Bearings as the crow flies (great circle), measured from north. From somewhere else, the bearing changes: that’s the whole game.

Oùcécap’s take

We picture South America sitting right below North America, but it is shifted to the east. So from New York, Buenos Aires lies south, slightly to the east, at 167°, and the same goes for Montreal. From London it is 225°, south-west, 11,128 km away. And if you dug straight down through the Earth from Buenos Aires, you would come out in eastern China, a few hundred kilometres from Shanghai.