The Republic of Chile (Repú blica de Chile in Spanish and Republic of Chile in English), referred to as "Chile", is located in the southwest of South America, at the western foot of the Andes. It borders Argentina in the east, Peru and Bolivia in the north, the Pacific Ocean in the west and Antarctica across the sea in the south. It is the narrowest country in the world.
Chile has a land area of 756,765,438+05 square kilometers, and the country is divided into 65,438+06 regions, 54 provinces (Provincia), 346 cities (Comuna), and Santiago, the capital. The total population of Chile is19.96 million, of which the urban population accounts for 86.9%.
geographical environment
The eastern part of Chile is the western slope of the Andes, accounting for about1/3 of the whole east-west width; There are coastal mountains with an altitude of 300 ~ 2000 meters in the west, most of which extend along the coast and enter the sea south, forming many coastal islands; The middle part is a sunken valley full of alluvium, with an altitude of about 1200m.
Chile in South America, like a slender brush, is 4270 kilometers long from north to south. If placed on the map of China, it extends from the northernmost part of Heilongjiang Province to the Xisha Islands. The average width of the east and west is only 180 km, but it is equivalent to the distance from Shanghai to Hangzhou, only a quarter of the national length. It is the narrowest country in the world.
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Chile.