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Chile, officially the Republic of Chile (Spanish: República e Chile (help·info)), is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow coastal strip wedged between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage at the country's southernmost tip. It is one of only two countries in South America that does not have a border with Brazil. The Pacific forms the country's entire western border, with a coastline that stretches over 6,435 kilometres. Chilean territory extends to the Pacific Ocean which includes the overseas territories of Juan Fernández Islands, the Sala y Gómez islands, the Desventuradas Islands and Easter Island located in Polynesia. Chile claims 1,250,000 km² (482,628 sq mi) of territory in Antarctica.

Trivia about chile

  • A piece of custom-made equipment called the Phoenix played a key role in an October event in this country
  • Isabel Allende's 1999 novel "Daughter of Fortune" begins in Valparaiso in this country
  • Patricio Guzman chronicled Salvador Allende's overthrow in "The Battle Of" this country
  • This South American country is over 10 times as long as it is wide
  • The southernmost point in South America, Cape Horn is part of this country
  • The name Pichilemu, a Pacific beach resort, contains the name of this country that it's in
  • Country that's more than 10 times as long as it is wide
  • This country is about 2,700 miles long & averages 110 miles wide
  • Santiago
  • Mines near Santiago & in the Atacama Desert make this country the world's leading copper producer
  • South of the border:Santiago
  • An attack on American sailors in Valparaiso brought the U.S. to the brink of war with this country
  • You'll find Los Angeles about 200 miles south of Santiago in this country
  • Henry Kissinger described this long, narrow country as a blade "pointed at the heart of Antarctica"
  • In 1945 this South American country's Gabriela Mistral won the Nobel Prize for Literature
  • This long, narrow country stretches from Peru to the southern tip of South America
  • You'll find El Teniente, the world's largest underground copper mine, in this South American country
  • In the 1880s this country promised to build a railroad for Bolivia, whose coastline it took away
  • Isabel Allende, Gabriela Mistral & Pablo Neruda are among this country's most famous writers
  • Although this South American country is about 2,650 miles long, its average width is less than 110 miles
  • On Feb. 27, 2010 a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck it
  • This So. American country lost millions after 2 cyanide-laced grapes turned up in Philadelphia
  • The locals are helpful in this South American country, 2,600 miles long but only 265 wide at its widest point
  • Conger eel is a taste treat; the cowboys are called huasos; its national congress is in Valparaiso
  • This country owns the island (Easter Island) where you'll find the guy seen here
  • An estimated 40% of the world's total copper supply is in three mines in this coastal country
  • Its borders with Bolivia & Peru are much shorter than its border with Argentina
  • In 1925 Pershing was sent to try to help resolve the hot border dispute between Peru & this country
  • Punta Arenas, in this country, is the world's southernmost city on a continental mainland
  • Heading to Valparaiso, a seaport in this South American country
  • Bernardo O'Higgins is called "The Liberator" of this long nation & also founded its navy
  • An 80-mile alpaca trek from Bolivia to the Pacific Ocean will take you through this other country
  • Thin must be in for this country with the highest life expectancy in South America, nearly 77 years
  • 33 miners trapped 2,000 feet down still celebrated this South American country's bicentennial
  • To the east, Argentina; to the west, the Pacific
  • The Pan-American Highway's southernmost point is Puerto Montt, 560 miles south of Santiago in this country
  • In 2010, before her term as president ended, Michelle Bachelet oversaw earthquake relief efforts in this country
  • Easter Island lies about 2,300 miles from this country that governs it
  • It can get cold in this country, around 40 degrees in July in Puerto Montt
  • Years before she became president, Michelle Bachelet of this nation was imprisoned by its Pinochet regime
  • Known as the liberator of this country, Bernardo O' Higgins lived his last years exiled from it
  • Across the Andes /Or the dry Atacama /Our ribbon of coast
  • Caldillo de congrio is a chowder from this South American country, that on the map is practically all seacoast
  • "Nearly 15 feet wide", this nation's been "preventing Argentina from enjoying the Pacific Ocean since 1818"
  • The biggest quake ever recorded, a magnitude 9.5, occurred in 1960 off this South American nation's west coast
  • .03" a year of rain falls on Arica in this South American country whose name sounds like a weather condition
  • This country's Cape Horn national park is the most southerly park in the Western Hemisphere
  • Chile,South Africa,Malaysia
  • Never wider than 200 miles, this long South American nation's name may come from an indigenous word meaning "snow"
  • Augusto Pinochet, who ousted Salvador Allende in 1973, led the junta in this country until 1990
  • The northern end of this country stands between Bolivia & a seacoast
  • The southernmost country in South America
  • Only 4 nations lie south of 40 degrees south latitude: Australia, New Zealand, Argentina & this one
  • Nobel Prize-winning poet Gabriela Mistral represented this country as a "Life Consul"
  • The world's largest deposit of sodium nitrate is found in the Atacama Desert in this country
  • Michelle Bachelet is the first female elected leader of this South American country
  • One of the driest places on Earth, the Atacama Desert lies mainly in this South American country
  • Supreme Director Bernardo O'Higgins
  • On Sept. 11, 1973 the elected Marxist government of this South American country was overthrown
  • This country is 2,650 miles long but narrows to 55 miles wide at Illapel
  • Pablo Neruda's website is on the server of the university of this country of his birth
  • Ski on Antuco Volcano close to Los Angeles near the Argentine border of this country
  • An antique vase bought in Valparaiso in this South American country will set you back a few pesos
  • This country has 2,600 miles on the Pacific & Punta Catalina on the Atlantic
  • The star is a guide; the blue is sky; the red is the blood of patriots; the white is the Andean snow
  • This country's almost 4,000-mile coastline is the longest of any in South America on the Pacific Ocean
  • Argentina's border with this country is 3,200 miles long, about the same as its coastline
  • Pungent tapering pepper
  • Bolivia became landlocked when this country took over its only coastal territory after a 19th c. war
  • To see Mario Irarrazabal's giant "Hand of the Desert" statue, visit the Atacama Desert in this country
  • Rapa Nui National Park
  • There's rich mining to be had around this country's Atacama fault

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