Chile huvudstad Chile, formellt Republiken Chile[ 1] (spanska: República de Chile), är ett land i sydvästra Sydamerika, beläget mellan Stilla havet och Anderna. Landet gränsar till Peru i norr, Bolivia i nordost samt Argentina i öster och söder om Drakes sund. 1 fakta om chile 2 Chile, country situated along the western seaboard of South America. It extends approximately 2, miles (4, km) from its boundary with Peru, at latitude 17°30′ S, to the tip of South America at Cape Horn, latitude 56° S, a point only about miles north of Antarctica. A long, narrow country, it has an average width of only about miles, with a maximum of miles at the latitude. 3 santiago de chile 4 Coordinates: 34°S 71°W Chile, [a] officially the Republic of Chile, [b] is a country located in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. 5 Santiago, capital of Chile. It lies on the canalized Mapocho River, with views of high Andean peaks to the east. The city was founded as Santiago del Nuevo Extremo (“Santiago of the New Frontier”) in by the Spanish conquistador Pedro de Valdivia. The area was inhabited by the Picunche Indians, who were placed under the rule of the Spanish settlers. The original city site was limited. 6 note 2: Chile is one of the countries along the Ring of Fire, a belt of active volcanoes and earthquake epicenters bordering the Pacific Ocean; up to 90% of the world's earthquakes and some 75% of the world's volcanoes occur within the Ring of Fire. note 3: the Atacama Desert - the driest desert in the world - spreads across the northern part. 7 chile natur 8 Santiago de Chile, oftast kallat enbart Santiago, är Chiles huvudstad. 9 Chile gör anspråk på en del av Antarktis kallad Territorio Chileno Antártico med en area på 1 km². 10 Officiell huvudstad Övriga huvudstäder Land Abu Dhabi Förenade Arabemiraten: Abuja Nigeria: Accra Ghana: Addis Abeba Etiopien: Alger Algeriet: Amman Jordanien: Amsterdam: Haag Nederländerna: Andorra la Vella Andorra: Ankara Turkiet: Antananarivo Madagaskar: Apia Samoa: Asjchabad Turkmenistan: Asmara Eritrea: Astana Kazakstan: Asunción. 11