Chile, officially the Republic of Chile (Spanish: República de Chile (help·info)), is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow coastal strip wedged between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean. The Pacific forms the country's entire western border, as Chile has a coastline that stretches over 6,435 kilometres.https://www. cia. gov/library/publications/the-world-fac tbook/geos/ci. html#Geo Peru borders to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage at the country's southernmost tip. The driest non-Arctic place on Earth known as the Atacama Desert is located in the northern part of Chile.http://www. extremescience. com/DriestPlace. htmhttp://pubs. usgs. gov/gip/deserts/types/ Chilean territory extends to the Pacific Ocean which includes the overseas territories of Juan Fernández Islands, the Sala y Gómez islands, the Desventuradas Islands and Easter Island located in Polynesia. Chile claims 1,250,000 km² (482,628 sq mi) of territory in Antarctica.

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