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Atacama

The Atacama Region is one of 's 16 first order administrative divisions. It comprises three provinces: , and . It is bordered to the north by , to the south by , to the east by the provinces of , La Rioja and San Juan of , and to the west by the Pacific Ocean.
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  • Type: State with 272,000 residents
  • Description: administrative division of Chile
  • Also known as: “Atacama Region” and “III Atacama Region”
  • Neighbors:

Atacama

Latitude
-27.5572° or 27° 33′ 26″ south
Longitude
-70.0157° or 70° 0′ 57″ west
Population
272,000
Elevation
1,800 metres (5,906 feet)
Abbreviation
“III Región”
Open location code
574FCXVM+4P
Open­Street­Map ID
node 647624375
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
3899191
Wiki­data ID
Q2120
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Atacama” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إقليم أتاكاما”
  • Armenian: “Ատակամա”
  • Asturian: “Rexón d’Atacama”
  • Bashkir: “Атакама”
  • Basque: “Atacama eskualdea”
  • Bavarian: “Región de Atacama”
  • Bengali: “আটকামা অঞ্চল”
  • Breton: “Rannvro Atacama”
  • Bulgarian: “Атакама”
  • Catalan: “Regió d’Atacama”
  • Cebuano: “Atacama”
  • Chinese: “Atacama”
  • Chinese: “阿塔卡馬大區”
  • Chinese: “阿塔卡马大区”
  • Croatian: “III. regija Atacama”
  • Croatian: “Regija Atacama”
  • Czech: “Atacama”
  • Czech: “Region Atacama”
  • Danish: “Atacama-regionen”
  • Danish: “Atacama”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Atacama”
  • Dutch: “Atacama”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اقليم اتاكاما”
  • Esperanto: “Regiono Atakamo”
  • Finnish: “Atacaman alue”
  • French: “Atacama”
  • French: “Région d’Atacama”
  • Galician: “Rexión de Atacama”
  • Georgian: “ატაკამა”
  • Georgian: “ატაკამის რეგიონი”
  • German: “Región de Atacama”
  • Greek: “Ατακάμα”
  • Gujarati: “અટાકામા પ્રદેશ”
  • Hebrew: “אטקמה”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז אטקמה”
  • Hindi: “एटाकामा क्षेत्र”
  • Iloko: “Rehion ti Atacama”
  • Indonesian: “Region Atacama”
  • Indonesian: “Wilayah Atacama”
  • Italian: “regione di Atacama”
  • Italian: “Regione di Atacama”
  • Japanese: “アタカマ州”
  • Kannada: “ಅಟ್ಕಾಮಾ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
  • Korean: “아타카마주”
  • Ladino: “Atacama”
  • Latin: “Atacama”
  • Latin: “Regio Atacamensis”
  • Latvian: “Atakamas reģions”
  • Lithuanian: “Atakamos regionas”
  • Malay: “Atacama Region”
  • Marathi: “अटाकामा प्रदेश”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Atacama (khu)”
  • Mingrelian: “ატაკამაშ რეგიონი”
  • Mirandese: “Region de Atacama”
  • Northern Frisian: “Región de Atacama”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Atacama”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Atacama-regionen”
  • Norwegian: “Atacama”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Region d’Atacama”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Region de Atacama”
  • Ossetian: “Атакамæ (регион)”
  • Ossetian: “Атакамæ”
  • Persian: “منطقه آتاکاما”
  • Polish: “Atakama”
  • Portuguese: “Atacama”
  • Portuguese: “Região de Atacama”
  • Portuguese: “Região do Atacama”
  • Quechua: “Atakama suyu”
  • Romanian: “Regiunea Atacama”
  • Romansh: “Región de Atacama”
  • Russian: “Атакама”
  • Scots: “Atacama Region”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Atacama (regija)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Atacama”
  • Sinhala: “ඇටකාමා කලාපය”
  • Slovak: “Atacama”
  • Slovenian: “III Región”
  • Slovenian: “Regija Atacama”
  • Slovenian: “Región de Atacama”
  • Spanish: “3.ª Región”
  • Spanish: “Atacama”
  • Spanish: “CL-AT”
  • Spanish: “III Región de Atacama”
  • Spanish: “III Región”
  • Spanish: “Región atacameña”
  • Spanish: “Region de Atacama”
  • Spanish: “Región de Atacama”
  • Spanish: “Tercera Región”
  • Swahili: “Mkoa wa Atacama”
  • Swahili: “Región de Atacama”
  • Swedish: “Atacama”
  • Swedish: “Región de Atacama”
  • Tamil: “அடக்கமா பகுதி”
  • Telugu: “అటాకామా ప్రాంతం”
  • Thai: “อาตากามา”
  • Turkish: “Atacama bölgesi”
  • Turkish: “Atacama”
  • Ukrainian: “III Регіон Атакама”
  • Ukrainian: “Атакама”
  • Urdu: “آتاکاما علاقہ”
  • Urdu: “اتاکاما ریجن”
  • Venetian: “Rejon de Atacama”
  • Vietnamese: “Atacama”
  • Vietnamese: “Khu vực Atacama”
  • Waray (Philippines): “III Rehiyon han Atacama”
  • Welsh: “Rhanbarth Atacama”
  • Western Armenian: “Աթաքամա”
  • Western Panjabi: “ایتاکاما ریجن”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿塔卡马大区”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿塔卡馬大區”
  • “Onohuayān Atacama”

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