How to recognise Argentina in Street View
Drives on the right
Much of Argentina's populated area is flat pampas, so landscape plus language usually confirms the country.
At a glance
- Driving side: Right.
- Language: Spanish (Rioplatense variety).
- Plates: Mercosur plates since 2016, older black-and-silver plates before that.
On the road
- Flat, straight roads across the plains.
- Rows of poplar trees planted as wind-breaks.
Landscape & architecture
- Vast grassland (pampas) in the centre.
- The Andes rise in the west; dry Patagonian steppe in the south.