south america • CHL
Chile
Location marker · geographic overview
30° S / 71° WTHE WORLD, ONE COUNTRY AT A TIME
- Capital
- Santiago
- Population
- 19,764,771 2024
- Area
- 756,102 km² (year unavailable)
- Languages source-listed
- Spanish
- Currency
- Chilean peso (CLP)
- Geography
- Coastal country
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Sources & limitations.
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FROM THE TRAVEL GUIDE · Chile
Chile is a country in South America. Chile occupies a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes and the Pacific Ocean.
Landscape & landmarks
Stretching from 17°S in the north to 55°S in the south, Chile is latitude-wise among the longest countries in the world, with several climate zones and types of nature. High mountains are present everywhere in the country.Read the see section ↗
Food & everyday culture
Chilean cuisine has a wide variety of dishes that emerged from the amalgamation of indigenous tradition and Spanish colonial contribution, combining their food, customs and culinary habits. Influences from German, Italian and French cuisines are thanks to immigrants who arrived during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Read the eat section ↗
Excerpts from Wikivoyage contributors, revision 2026-08-23. CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected excerpts; wiki formatting removed; omissions marked […]. Guide wording and any figures belong to this dated source; they do not replace the atlas statistics above. Food descriptions are not official national-dish designations.
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- National flower
- Not yet verified
- Official national dish
- Not yet verified
- Representative food
- Not yet verified
- Subregion
- South America
- Calling code
- +56
- Internet domain
- .cl
- Land border codes
- ARG, BOL, PER
Quick facts
- Traffic keeps to the right side of the road. Source ↗
- The country-code web domain is .cl. Source ↗
- The source lists monday as the start of the week. Source ↗
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Source-matched September 26, 2026; not live data. Sources & limitations.