South America
Flag of Chile
A ribbon of land pinned between mountains and ocean.
Colours, by share of the flag
- #c01818 50%
- #f0f0f0 34%
- #003090 15%
Measured from the flag artwork itself, so shares are approximate and emblems get folded into the nearest tone.
Chile in numbers
| Official name | Republic of Chile |
|---|---|
| Capital | Santiago |
| Region | South America, South America |
| Population | 19,116,209 |
| Area | 756,102 km² · 25 people per km² |
| Currency | Chilean peso (CLP) |
| Languages | Spanish |
| Country codes | CL · CHL · .cl |
| Coastline | Has a coast |
Things worth knowing
- Chile stretches more than 4,000 kilometres from north to south yet averages under 200 kilometres wide, so a Chilean is never far from either the Andes or the Pacific.
- Its northern Atacama is the driest desert outside the poles, with weather stations that have logged years without rain and soils so Mars-like that NASA tests rover instruments there.
- The country runs from the sun-baked, arid north all the way to the wind-lashed fjords and glaciers of sub-Antarctic Patagonia, packing an extraordinary range of climates into one narrow strip.
Did you know
Chile claims a wedge of Antarctica and governs Easter Island, whose giant moai statues sit some 3,500 kilometres out in the Pacific.
Neighbours
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Country data from the mledoze/countries dataset under ODbL 1.0. Flag artwork from the same dataset. All 196 flags.