Chile (chl)

Chile

Chile ranks 682nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Chernivtsi, Qingdao, and Augusta, Georgia. Memorable people born in Chile include Carlos Vidal, Arturo Torres Carrasco, and Guillermo Riveros. Memorable people who died in Chile include César Espinoza, Humberto Elgueta, and Guillermo Riveros. Chile has been the birth place of many soccer players and singers and the death place of many soccer players. Chile is located in Chile.

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Chile covers an area of 756,096 square kilometers (291,930 sq mi), with a population of 17.5 million as of 2017. It shares land borders with Peru to the north, Bolivia to the north-east, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far south. Chile also controls the Pacific islands of Juan Fernández, Isla Salas y Gómez, Desventuradas, and Easter Island in Oceania. It also claims about 1,250,000 square kilometers (480,000 sq mi) of Antarctica under the Chilean Antarctic Territory. The country's capital and largest city is Santiago, and its national language is Spanish. Read more on Wikipedia