CHILE
- Official name: The Republic of Chile (La República de Chile)
- Land area: 289,112 sq mi (748,800 sq km)
- Total area: 292,260 sq mi (756,950 sq km)
- Capital: Santiago, 6.68 million (2018 est.)
- Other large cities: Valparaiso 967,000; Concepcion 857,000 (2018)
- Currency: Chilean Peso
- Telephone code: 56
- Electricity: 220V, 50Hz; plugs/sockets Type C (Euro) and L
- National Holiday: Independence Day, September 18
- Population: 17,789,267 (2017 est.)
- Population Change: Growth rate: 0.77%; 13.97 births/1,000 population, 6.2 deaths/1,000 population, 0.3 migrant(s)/1,000 population; infant mortality rate: 6.6 deaths/1,000 live births (2017 est.)
- Life Expectancy: 78.9 years (2017 est.)
- Nationality/Demonym: Chilean (Chileno/a)
- Languages: Spanish 99.5% (official), English 10.2%, indigenous 1% (includes Mapudungun, Aymara, Quechua, Rapa Nui), other 2.3%, unspecified 0.2% note: shares sum to more than 100% because some respondents gave more than one answer on the census (2012 est.)
- Ethnicity/race: white and non-indigenous 88.9%, Mapuche 9.1%, Aymara 0.7%, other indigenous groups 1% (includes Rapa Nui, Likan Antai, Quechua, Colla, Diaguita, Kawesqar, Yagan or Yamana), unspecified 0.3% (2012 est.)
- Religions: Roman Catholic 66.7%, Evangelical or Protestant 16.4%, Jehovah's Witnesses 1%, other 3.4%, none 11.5%, unspecified 1.1% (2012 est.)
- Literacy rate: 97.5% (2015 est.)
- Geography: Chile is about twice the size of Montana. Situated south of Peru and west of Bolivia and Argentina, Chile fills a narrow 2,880-mi (4,506 km) strip between the Andes and the Pacific. One-third of Chile is covered by the towering ranges of the Andes. In the north is the driest place on Earth, the Atacama Desert, and in the center is a 700-mile-long (1,127 km) thickly populated valley with most of Chile's arable land. At the southern tip of Chile's mainland is Punta Arenas, the southernmost city in the world, and beyond that lies the Strait of Magellan and Tierra del Fuego, an island divided between Chile and Argentina. The southernmost point of South America is Cape Horn, a 1,390-foot (424 m) rock on Horn Island in the Wollaston group, which belongs to Chile. Chile also claims sovereignty over 482,628 sq mi (1,250,000 sq km) of Antarctic territory; the Juan Fernández Islands, about 400 mi (644 km) west of the mainland; and Easter Island, about 2,000 mi (3,219 km) west.
- Chile shares borders with three neighboring countries. In order of shared border length, these are: Argentina (4,158 km), Bolivia (585 km), and Peru (104 km).