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What do you mean a "small country"? Argentina is 8-th largest country in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...

Shanghai alone has a larger GDP than Argentina, and that's pre-pandemic data.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_prefecture-l...

In a world of continent-sized superpowers, any country with less than 100m people is objectively small; and Argentina definitely does not compensate for that with high per-capita GDP (they are not even in the top 50).

There's probably only three large countries in the world by your definition then: the USA, China, and Japan. (India, Brazil and Russia's economies are probably too small to meet your standard, all being smaller than the UK's or Germany's.)

India is actually ahead of the UK and immediately behind Germany.

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