South America

Chile

Chile is a country in . Chile occupies a long, narrow strip of land between the and the Pacific Ocean. Chile is endowed with 5 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, snowy mountains, and exquisite national parks.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Central Chile and Santiago.

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is one of the most important regions of Chile. It is where you will find Santiago, a number of charming small towns in the Andean highlands, the largest ski resort in Chile, and important seaside ports like Valparaiso.

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is the capital and economic center of Chile. With its many museums, events, theaters, restaurants, bars and other entertainment and cultural opportunities, it is also the cultural center of the country.

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is a city of almost 300,000 people on the Pacific coast of . Frequently referred to as simply Valpo, it is about 120 km west of the capital, .

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Southern Chile and Northern Chile.

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Zona Sur is one of the five natural regions on which CORFO divided continental Chile in 1950. Its northern border is formed by the Bío-Bío River, which separates it from the Zone.

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is among the driest parts of the world. It includes the regions of Arica-Parinacota, Tarapacá, Antofagasta, Atacama and Coquimbo.

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is a region in the extreme south of Chile. Along with the Atacama Desert, is the most natural part of Chile. The rough, extremely humid climate and the difficult connection to the rest of Chile made it unsuitable for cultivation, which is why, with the exception of a few enclaves, the area is extremely sparsely populated.
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Chile

Latitude of center
-33.724° or 33° 43′ 26″ south
Longitude of center
-71.015° or 71° 0′ 54″ west
Population
16,600,000
Area
756,950 km² (292,260 miles²)
Elevation
297 metres (974 feet)
Capital
Currency
Peso (CLP)
Phone code
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Internet domain
56
Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
3895114
Wiki­data ID
Q298
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Chile” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Чили”
  • Achinese: “Chili”
  • Adyghe: “Чили”
  • Afrikaans: “Chili”
  • Akan: “Kyili”
  • Albanian: “Kili”
  • Albanian: “Republika e Kilit”
  • Amharic: “ቺሊ”
  • Amharic: “ቺሌ”
  • Amis: “Chile”
  • Angika: “चिली”
  • Arabic: “تشيلي”
  • Arabic: “جمهورية تشيلي”
  • Arabic: “شيلي”
  • Aragonese: “Chile”
  • Armenian: “Չիլի”
  • Arpitan: “Ch·ili”
  • Arpitan: “Chili”
  • Assamese: “চিলি”
  • Asturian: “Chile”
  • Asturian: “República de Chile”
  • Atayal: “Chile”
  • Avaric: “Чили”
  • Awadhi: “चिली”
  • Aymara: “Chili”
  • Azerbaijani: “Çile”
  • Azerbaijani: “Çili”
  • Balinese: “Chili”
  • Bambara: “Chile”
  • Bambara: “Sili”
  • Banjar: “Chili”
  • Banjar: “Cili”
  • Bashkir: “ba”
  • Bashkir: “Чи́ли Респу́бликаһы — Тымыҡ океан һәм Анд тауҙары араһындағы ерҙең оҙон тар һыҙатын биләгән Көньяҡ Американың көньяҡ-көнбайышындағы дәүләт.”
  • Bashkir: “Чили”
  • Basque: “Txile”
  • Batak Toba: “Chili”
  • Batak Toba: “Sili”
  • Bavarian: “Chile”
  • Belarusian: “Чілі”
  • Belarusian: “Чылі”
  • Bengali: “চিলি”
  • Betawi: “Cili”
  • Bhojpuri: “चिली”
  • Bishnupriya: “চিলি”
  • Bislama: “Chile”
  • Bislama: “Jili”
  • Bislama: “Ripablik blong Jili”
  • Bosnian: “Čile”
  • Breton: “Chile”
  • Breton: “Republik Chile”
  • Buginese: “Chili”
  • Buginese: “ᨌᨗᨒᨗ”
  • Bulgarian: “Република Чили”
  • Bulgarian: “Чили”
  • Burmese: “ချီလီ”
  • Burmese: “ချီလီနိုင်ငံ”
  • Burmese: “ချီလီပြည်သူ့သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Xile”
  • Cebuano: “Tsile”
  • Cebuano: “Tśile”
  • Central Bikol: “Tsile”
  • Central Kanuri: “Chile”
  • Central Kurdish: “چیلی”
  • Chamorro: “Chile”
  • Chavacano: “Chile”
  • Chechen: “Чили”
  • Cherokee: “ᏥᎵ”
  • Cheyenne: “Chile”
  • Chinese: “Chile”
  • Chinese: “智利”
  • Chinese: “智利共和国”
  • Chinese: “智利共和國”
  • Church Slavic: “Чилє”
  • Chuvash: “Чили”
  • Cornish: “Chile”
  • Corsican: “Cile”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Çile”
  • Croatian: “Čile”
  • Czech: “Chile”
  • Dagbani: “Chile”
  • Danish: “Chile”
  • Danish: “Republica de Chile”
  • Danish: “Republikken Chile”
  • Dhivehi: “ޗިލީ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Şili”
  • Dinka: “Cile”
  • Dotyali: “चिली”
  • Dutch: “Chili”
  • Dzongkha: “ཅི་ལི”
  • Dzongkha: “ཅི་ལེ”
  • Dzongkha: “ཆི་ལི།”
  • Eastern Mari: “Чили”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تشيلى”
  • Erzya: “Чили Мастор”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉilio”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Ĉilio”
  • Estonian: “Tiiili”
  • Estonian: “Tšiili Vabariik”
  • Estonian: “Tšiili”
  • Ewe: “Chile”
  • Ewe: “Tsile nutome”
  • Extremaduran: “Chili”
  • Faroese: “Kili”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Chile”
  • Fijian: “Chile”
  • Finnish: “Chile”
  • Finnish: “Chilen tasavalta”
  • French: “Chili”
  • French: “République du Chili”
  • Friulian: “Cile”
  • Fulah: “Ciile”
  • Fulah: “Cilii”
  • Ga: “Chile”
  • Gagauz: “Çili”
  • Galician: “Chile”
  • Galician: “República de Chile”
  • Gan Chinese: “智利”
  • Ganda: “Chile”
  • Ganda: “Cile”
  • Georgian: “ჩილე”
  • Georgian: “ჩილი”
  • German: “Chile”
  • German: “Republica de Chile”
  • German: “República de Chile”
  • German: “Republik Chile”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Chile”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Republic of Chile”
  • Gilaki: “شيلي”
  • Gilaki: “شیلی”
  • Goan Konkani: “Chile”
  • Goan Konkani: “चिली”
  • Gothic: “𐍃𐌷𐌹𐌻𐌴”
  • Gothic: “𐍄𐍃𐌾𐌹𐌻𐌴𐌹”
  • Greek: “Δημοκρατία της Χιλής”
  • Greek: “Χιλή”
  • Guarani: “Chile”
  • Guarani: “Chíle”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Chili”
  • Gujarati: “ચિલી”
  • Gujarati: “ચીલી”
  • Haitian: “Chili”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Chile”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Chṳ-li”
  • Hausa: “Cayile”
  • Hausa: “Chile”
  • Hawaiian: “Kile”
  • Hawaiian: “Lepupalika ʻo Kile”
  • Hebrew: “צ’ילה”
  • Hebrew: “צ׳ילה”
  • Hebrew: “צילה”
  • Hindi: “चिली”
  • Hindi: “चिले”
  • Hungarian: “Chile”
  • Hungarian: “Chilei Köztársaság”
  • Hungarian: “Csile”
  • Iban: “Chile”
  • Icelandic: “Síle”
  • Ido: “Chili”
  • Igbo: “Chile”
  • Iloko: “Chile”
  • Inari Sami: “Chile täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Chile”
  • Indonesian: “Chili”
  • Indonesian: “Cile”
  • Interlingua: “Chile”
  • Interlingue: “Chile”
  • Inuktitut: “ᓯᓕ”
  • Inupiaq: “Cili”
  • Inupiaq: “Sili”
  • Irish: “an tSile”
  • Irish: “An tSile”
  • Italian: “Cile”
  • Italian: “Repubblica del Cile”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Chili”
  • Japanese: “チリ”
  • Japanese: “チリ共和国”
  • Javanese: “Chili”
  • Javanese: “Cilé”
  • Kabardian: “Чили”
  • Kabiyè: “Silii”
  • Kabuverdianu: “Xili”
  • Kabyle: “Cili”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Chile”
  • Kalaallisut: “Chile”
  • Kalmyk: “Чилмудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಚಿಲಿ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “CHI”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Chili Respublikası”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Chili”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Чили Республикасы”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Чили”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Чили”
  • Kashmiri: “چلي”
  • Kashmiri: “چلی”
  • Kashmiri: “چِلی”
  • Kashubian: “Chile”
  • Kazakh: “Чили”
  • Khmer: “ឈីលី”
  • Khmer: “ស៊ីលី”
  • Kikuyu: “Chile”
  • Kinaray-A: “Tsile”
  • Kinaray-A: “Tsili”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Shili”
  • Kirghiz: “Чили”
  • Kölsch: “Chile”
  • Kölsch: “Shiile”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Чили”
  • Komi: “Чили”
  • Kongo: “Chile”
  • Korean: “칠레”
  • Kotava: “Tcilea”
  • Kurdish: “Şîle”
  • Kurdish: “Şîlî”
  • Kurdish: “شیلی”
  • Ladin: “Cile”
  • Ladino: “Chile”
  • Lak: “Чили”
  • Lak: “Чилй”
  • Lao: “ຊິລີ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດຊີເລ”
  • Latgalian: “Čile”
  • Latin: “Chilia”
  • Latvian: “Čīle”
  • Lezghian: “Чили”
  • Ligurian: “Cile”
  • Limburgan: “Chili”
  • Lingala: “Shíle”
  • Lingala: “Shili”
  • Lingala: “Síli”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Txile”
  • Literary Chinese: “智利”
  • Lithuanian: “Čilė”
  • Livvi: “Čili”
  • Lojban: “la tciles”
  • Lojban: “lo gugdeculu”
  • Lojban: “tciles”
  • Lombard: “Cile”
  • Low German: “Chile”
  • Low German: “Chili”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Chilska”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Shili”
  • Luxembourgish: “Chile”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Cile”
  • Macedonian: “Чиле”
  • Madurese: “Chili”
  • Maithili: “चिली”
  • Malagasy: “Shili”
  • Malagasy: “Silia”
  • Malay: “Chile”
  • Malay: “Cile”
  • Malayalam: “ചിലി”
  • Maltese: “Ċile”
  • Maltese: “Ċili”
  • Maltese: “Ċilì”
  • Maltese: “iċ-Ċili”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika taċ-Ċilì”
  • Manipuri: “ꯆꯤꯂꯤ”
  • Manx: “y Çhillee”
  • Manx: “Yn Çhillee”
  • Maori: “Hiri”
  • Marathi: “चिली”
  • Marathi: “चिले”
  • Mazanderani: “شیلی”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Chile”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Chile”
  • Minangkabau: “Chili”
  • Mingrelian: “ჩილე”
  • Mirandese: “Chile”
  • Moksha: “Чили”
  • Mongolian: “Чили”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “شيلي”
  • Narom: “Chili”
  • Nauru: “Tsire”
  • Navajo: “Chíilii”
  • Navajo: “Shádiʼááhjí Jeeshóóʼ Bikéyah”
  • Neapolitan: “Cile”
  • Nepali: “चिली”
  • Newari: “चिली”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Chile”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Republic of Chile”
  • North Ndebele: “Chile”
  • Northern Frisian: “Chiile”
  • Northern Luri: “شیلی”
  • Northern Sami: “Chile dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Chile”
  • Northern Sami: “Čiile”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chile”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken Chile”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chile”
  • Norwegian: “Chile”
  • Novial: “Chile”
  • Nyanja: “Chile”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Chile”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܬܫܝܠܝ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cile”
  • Oriya: “ଚିଲି”
  • Oriya: “ଚିଲ୍ଲୀ”
  • Oromo: “Chiilii”
  • Ossetian: “Чили”
  • Pa'o Karen: “ဆီလီခမ်းထီ”
  • Pali: “चिले”
  • Pampanga: “bangsâ king mauling Amerika”
  • Pampanga: “Chile”
  • Pampanga: “Tsíli”
  • Pangasinan: “Chile”
  • Panjabi: “ਚਿਲੀ”
  • Panjabi: “ਚਿਲੇ”
  • Papiamento: “Chile”
  • Pedi: “Chile”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Chile”
  • Persian: “چیلی”
  • Persian: “شیلی”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Chile”
  • Picard: “Kili”
  • Piemontese: “Cile”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Chili”
  • Polish: “Chile”
  • Polish: “Republika Chile”
  • Pontic: “Χιλε”
  • Pontic: “Χιλή”
  • Portuguese: “Chile”
  • Pushto: “چيلي”
  • Pushto: “چیلي”
  • Pushto: “چېلي”
  • Quechua: “Chile”
  • Quechua: “Chili”
  • Quechua: “Chilisuyu”
  • Romanian: “Chile”
  • Romansh: “Chile”
  • Rundi: “Chile”
  • Rundi: “Chili”
  • Rundi: “Shili”
  • Russia Buriat: “Чили”
  • Russian: “Республика Чили”
  • Russian: “Чили”
  • Rusyn: “Чіле”
  • Sakizaya: “Chile”
  • Samoan: “Shili”
  • Samoan: “Sile”
  • Samogitian: “Čilė”
  • Sango: “Shilïi”
  • Sanskrit: “चिलि”
  • Sanskrit: “चिले”
  • Santali: “ᱪᱤᱞᱤ”
  • Sardinian: “Cile”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Chile”
  • Scots: “Chile”
  • Scots: “Republic o Chile”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “An t-Sile”
  • Serbian: “Čile”
  • Serbian: “Република Чиле”
  • Serbian: “Чиле”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Čile”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းၶျီႇလီႇ”
  • Shona: “Chile”
  • Sicilian: “Cili”
  • Silesian: “Czile”
  • Sindhi: “چلي”
  • Sinhala: “චිලි ජනරජය”
  • Sinhala: “චිලී”
  • Skolt Sami: “Chile tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Chile”
  • Slovak: “Chile”
  • Slovak: “Čile”
  • Slovak: “Čilská republika”
  • Slovenian: “Čile”
  • Somali: “Chili”
  • Somali: “Jili”
  • South Azerbaijani: “شیلی”
  • Southern Sotho: “Chile”
  • Spanish: “Chile”
  • Spanish: “República de Chile”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Sili”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵛⵉⵍⵉ”
  • Sundanese: “Cilé”
  • Sundanese: “Cili”
  • Swahili: “Chile”
  • Swati: “IShile”
  • Swedish: “Chile”
  • Swedish: “Republiken Chile”
  • Swiss German: “Chile”
  • Sylheti: “ꠌꠤꠟꠤ”
  • Tachelhit: “Tcili”
  • Tagalog: “Chile”
  • Tagalog: “Tsile”
  • Tahitian: “Tīri”
  • Tajik: “Чиле”
  • Tajik: “Чили”
  • Talysh: “Cili”
  • Tamil: “சிலி”
  • Taroko: “Chile”
  • Tatar: “Чили”
  • Telugu: “చిలి”
  • Telugu: “చిలీ”
  • Tetum: “Xile”
  • Thai: “ชิลี”
  • Thai: “ประเทศชิลี”
  • Tibetan: “ཅི་ལི་སྤྱི་མཐུན་རྒྱལ་ཁབ།”
  • Tibetan: “ཅི་ལི།”
  • Tigrinya: “ሪፓብሊክ ቺሌ”
  • Tigrinya: “ቺለ”
  • Tigrinya: “ቺሊ”
  • Tigrinya: “ቺሌ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Sili”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Sile”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Sili”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Chile”
  • Tsonga: “Chile”
  • Tswana: “Chile”
  • Tulu: “ಚಿಲಿ”
  • Tumbuka: “Chile”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “تشيلي”
  • Turkish: “CHI”
  • Turkish: “Republica de Chile”
  • Turkish: “República de Chile”
  • Turkish: “Şili Cumhuriyeti”
  • Turkish: “Şili”
  • Turkmen: “Çili”
  • Tuvinian: “Чили”
  • Twi: “Chile”
  • Twi: “Kyili”
  • Udmurt: “Чили”
  • Uighur: “چىلى”
  • Ukrainian: “Чилі”
  • Ukrainian: “Чілі”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Chile”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Chilska”
  • Urdu: “چلی”
  • Uzbek: “Chili”
  • Venda: “Shile”
  • Venetian: “Ciłe”
  • Veps: “Čili”
  • Vietnamese: “Chi-lê (Chile)”
  • Vietnamese: “Chi-lê”
  • Vietnamese: “Chile”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Chile”
  • Vlaams: “Chili”
  • Vlax Romani: “Chile”
  • Volapük: “Cilän”
  • Võro: “Tsiili”
  • Walloon: “Tchili”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Chile”
  • Wayuu: “Chiire”
  • Welsh: “Chile”
  • Welsh: “Tsile”
  • Welsh: “Tsili”
  • Western Armenian: “Չիլէ”
  • Western Armenian: “Չիլի”
  • Western Balochi: “چیلی”
  • Western Frisian: “Chili”
  • Western Frisian: “Sily”
  • Western Mari: “Чили”
  • Western Panjabi: “چلی”
  • Western Panjabi: “چِلے”
  • Wolof: “Sili”
  • Wu Chinese: “智利”
  • Xhosa: “IChile”
  • Yakut: “Чиили”
  • Yakut: “Чили”
  • Yiddish: “טשילע”
  • Yoruba: “Ṣílè”
  • Yoruba: “Tsílè”
  • Yue Chinese: “智利”
  • Zeeuws: “Chili”
  • Zhuang: “Cili”
  • Zulu: “Chili”
  • Zulu: “i-Chile”
  • Zulu: “ITshile”
  • “Chile”
  • “CHL”
  • “Cîl”
  • “Cile”
  • “Čilė”
  • “cl”
  • “CL”
  • “ma Sile”
  • “Tsiili”
  • “चिली”

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