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Chile

CL / CHL   -33.0°, -71.0°

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the Southern Cone of southwestern South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica, extending along a narrow strip of land between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. According to the 2024 census, Chile had an enumerated population of 18.5 million. The country covers a territorial area of 756,102 square kilometers (291,933 sq mi), sharing borders with Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage to the south. It also administers several Pacific islands, including Juan Fernández, Isla Salas y Gómez, Desventuradas, and Easter Island, and claims about 1,250,000 square kilometers (480,000 sq mi) of Antarctica as the Chilean Antarctic Territory. The capital and largest city is Santiago, and the official and national language is Spanish.

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People are called
Chilean
Driving side
Right
Calling code
+56
Capital
Santiago
Population
19,458,000
Area
756,102 km2
Climate
Temperate
Government
Presidential republic
Currency
Chilean peso
Languages
Spanish 99.5%, English 10.2%, Indigenous 1%
Sells
copper ore, refined copper, fish, carbonates
Sells to
China 39%, USA 16%, Japan 7%
Land borders
3: Argentina, Bolivia, Peru
Drives on the
right
Calling code
+56
Founded
1810
Hemisphere
Southern

WHAT PEOPLE ARE CALLED

Chilean

These are English demonyms for people from Chile. A demonym describes a connection to a place; it does not mean everyone shares an ethnicity, language or religion.

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SAME LAND, DIFFERENT WORLDS

Civilizations, flags & standards

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Modern borders are a starting point for exploring the past. These cultures and states occupied some of the same land; they were not the same country. Dates describe each civilization or state as a whole, not continuous rule over every place listed.

Modern attribution disputed

Inca Empire

c. 1438–1533 CE; successor resistance continued to 1572

An Andean empire centered at Cusco, covering portions of these modern countries, not their full territory.

The rainbow flag often labeled an Inca flag is modern. The flag of Cusco does not establish an ancient national-flag design.

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Turning points

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Religion: state & society

An official religion is a legal status. The largest religious group is a population measure. Neither describes every person's beliefs.

Official status and a dated affiliation breakdown have not been checked for this country. The atlas's religion tags are not a population ranking.

BEYOND THE MAP

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Where it is

Languages

Share of the population that speaks each. Click one to see every country that speaks it.

Spanishofficial
99.5%
10.2%
1.0%

Largest cities

Santiago  capital 4,837,295
Puente Alto 568,106
Maipú 503,635
Antofagasta 401,096
Viña del Mar 334,248

Wars and conflicts

Conflicts this country is attached to. Click one to see the others. Each says what kind of claim it is: a principal belligerent is hand-checked against the modern state that succeeded the power that fought, while a recorded participant comes from the bulk import, which does not separate combat from funding, basing, occupation or reconstruction. Neither list is complete, so a country missing from a war may still have taken part — which is why the quiz no longer asks who fought in what.

Form of government

Presidential republic.

Climate and geography

temperate; desert in north; Mediterranean in central region; cool and damp in south

Climate zone

Highest point

Southern hemisphere.

Figures from its history

Bernardo O'Higgins
Bernardo O'Higgins Independence leader Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme was a Chilean military officer, statesman and a major leader of Chile's successful struggle for independence from the Spanish Empire.
Salvador Allende
Salvador Allende President overthrown in 1973 Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens was a Chilean socialist politician who served as the 29th president of Chile from 1970 until his suicide in 1973.
Augusto Pinochet
Augusto Pinochet Dictator, 1973-1990 Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte was a Chilean army officer and military dictator who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990.
Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda Nobel laureate poet Pablo Neruda was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Checked facts

Most of this page is imported in bulk and carries no source of its own. These entries were checked by hand against the source named, and are reapplied after every dataset rebuild so a refetch cannot quietly put the old value back.

  • Continents — Seven-continent model. A country spanning two continents is filed under the one containing its capital; the other is accepted too.
    The imported list was unordered and included overseas territory, so its first entry was not the continent the country is in.
    Source · true as of 2026-09-11 · checked 2026-09-11

Corrected in an AI-assisted review of the imported data (2026-09-22), not yet checked against a named source: currencies, past leaders.