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Chile: map and facts
Chile is in South America. It has about 19.9 million people (2025), the 65th largest population. It covers 756,556 km², the 37th largest by area. That is about 26 people per km². Its highest point is Nevado Ojos del Salado, at 6,893 m. The longest river on its map is the Gallegos, 300 km from source to mouth.
Facts
- Population: 19,859,921 (2025, World Bank)
- Area: 756,556 km² (2024, World Bank). This figure covers a different area from the one this map shows: as drawn, about 736,000 km².
- Capital: Santiago
- Highest point: Nevado Ojos del Salado, 6,893 m (Wikidata)
- Forest: 24.5% of the land (2024, World Bank)
Rivers
The longest rivers on the map of Chile, with the length of each whole river (Wikidata):
- Gallegos: 300 km
- Copiapó: 162 km
Also on the map: Bío-Bío and Rio Rapel.
Mountains and landscapes
Its highest peaks:
- Nevado Ojos del Salado: 6,893 m (its highest point)
- Volcan Llullaillaco: 6,723 m
- Cerro Tupungato: 6,570 m
- Aucanquilcha: 6,176 m
- Cerro San Valentín: 4,058 m
- Monte Tronador: 3,491 m
- Monte Fitz Roy: 3,406 m
- Cerro Paine Grande: 2,884 m
Mountain ranges: Andes.
Plateaus, plains, deserts and other regions: Patagonia, Altiplano, Atacama Desert, Central Valley, Taitao Peninsula, Desventuradas Islands and Juan Fernandez Islands.
Land
Land cover seen from satellites (NASA MODIS, 2024): bare ground 36.9%, grassland 12.4%, evergreen broadleaf forest 9.4%, savanna 9.1%, mixed forest 7%, evergreen conifer forest 6.1%.
Landforms, worked out from the height of the land (USGS GMTED2010): mountains 51.8%, hills 21.1%, high mountains 16.5%, plains 6.2%, plateaus 4.4%.
Forests covered 24.5% of its land in 2024, up from 22.6% in 1990 (World Bank).
Minerals and fuels
- World #1 in copper among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #2 in molybdenum among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #3 in lithium among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #5 in silver among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #7 in salt among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #9 in potash among the countries USGS lists (2025)
Neighbours
Chile shares land borders with Argentina, Bolivia and Peru on this map.
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Sources
India’s boundaries are drawn according to India’s official position, simplified for small-scale maps (data: Natural Earth, India view). Each figure shows its year and source; some are rounded. Data release 2026.2.
- Natural Earth (naturalearthdata.com), public domain. Boundaries follow India's official position (Natural Earth's India point of view). Terms
- GMTED2010 courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey (Danielson and Gesch 2011, USGS Open-File Report 2011-1073). Terms
- Friedl, M., Sulla-Menashe, D. (2022). MODIS/Terra+Aqua Land Cover Type Yearly L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V061. NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC. doi:10.5067/MODIS/MCD12Q1.061. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL): UN Population Division, national statistical offices (2025 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Surface area (AG.SRF.TOTL.K2): FAO (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Forest area (% of land area) (AG.LND.FRST.ZS): FAO, FAOSTAT (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- Wikidata (CC0): names, capitals, peak heights and river lengths, checked by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- Credit: U.S. Geological Survey, Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 data release (doi:10.5066/P1WKQ63T). Terms
- Landforms worked out by Make Me Smarter from GMTED2010.
- Some figures corrected by Make Me Smarter from published references: Australian Bureau of Statistics; Atlas of Canada; CIA World Factbook (archived); FAO; FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025; FSM Statistics; GeoNames; Gilbertson & Gilbertson's GPS surveys of national high points; INEGI (Mexico); Peaklist.org; PeakVisor; Government of the Pitcairn Islands; Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program; Statistics Finland; UN Demographic Yearbook; UN World Population Prospects 2024; Wikidata; Wikipedia.
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