Over 4,300 km long but averaging only 177 km wide, and its Atacama Desert has weather stations that have never recorded rain.
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Chile
Republic of Chile
South America
ยท South America
0Population
756.1Kkmยฒ of land
$14.9KGDP / person
SantiagoCapital
- ISO codes
- CL ยท CHL
- Density
- 25 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Spanish
- Currency
- Chilean peso (CLP)
- Dial code
- +56
- Internet domain
- .cl
- Time zones
- 4
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 38.1520ยฐ S, 72.3190ยฐ W
- Demonym
- Chilean
- UN region
- Americas ยท South America
- Economy
- Emerging region: G20
- Income group
- Upper middle income
- Total GDP
- $282.32B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 3
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By the numbers
How Chile stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
62nd
of 242 ยท 0.25% of world population
Land area
39th
of 242 ยท 0.50% of world land
GDP per person
86th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
182nd
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Chile
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 18,952,038 people, the 62nd largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.25 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 756,102 kmยฒ, making it the 39th largest country here - about 8.2 times the size of Portugal.
Population density is about 25 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Santiago, at 33.45ยฐ S, 70.67ยฐ W, with a metropolitan population of about 5,720,000.
Shares land borders with 3 countries: Argentina, Bolivia and Peru.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Spans 4 time zones, from America/Coyhaique to Pacific/Easter.
The currency is the Chilean peso (CLP, symbol $).
The official language is Spanish.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
America/Coyhaique
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America/Punta Arenas
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America/Santiago
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Pacific/Easter
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Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Santiago
Regiรณn Metropolitana de Santiago
33.4481ยฐ S, 70.6690ยฐ W
5.72M
2
Concepciรณn
Bรญo-Bรญo
36.8300ยฐ S, 73.0500ยฐ W
889.73K
3
Valparaรญso
Valparaรญso
33.0458ยฐ S, 71.6230ยฐ W
854K
4
Antofagasta
Antofagasta
23.6500ยฐ S, 70.4000ยฐ W
309.83K
5
Iquique
Tarapacรก
20.2500ยฐ S, 70.1300ยฐ W
227.5K
6
Arica
Arica y Parinacota
18.5000ยฐ S, 70.2900ยฐ W
186K
7
Puerto Montt
Los Lagos
41.4700ยฐ S, 72.9300ยฐ W
174.63K
8
Valdivia
Los Rรญos
39.7950ยฐ S, 73.2450ยฐ W
159.6K
9
La Serena
Coquimbo
29.9000ยฐ S, 71.2500ยฐ W
154.52K
10
Los Angeles
Bรญo-Bรญo
37.4600ยฐ S, 72.3600ยฐ W
145.24K
๐ Peaks
Ojos del Salado
6,893 m
๐งญ Worth the trip
Moai of Easter Island
Ancient
Nearly a thousand stone ancestors on the most remote inhabited island on the planet, 3,500 km from the mainland.
Torres del Paine
Adventure
Granite towers, blue glaciers and wind that regularly exceeds 100 km/h on the classic W trek.
Land neighbours
3 countries share a border with Chile.