Republic of Chile República de Chile CAPITAL: Santiago FLAG: The flag, adopted in 1817, consists of a lower half of red and an upper section of white, with a blue square in the upper left corner containing a five-pointed white star. ANTHEM:...

A country slightly larger than Texas, Chile is located on the west coast of South America. Its land mass measures 292,258 square miles (756,945 sq. km.) and is bounded by Peru on the north, Bolivia and Argentina on the east, and the South Pacific...

Chile Chile is located on the western side of the Andes mountain range in the southern cone of the Americas. Its territory covers an area of 756,626 square kilometers (291,893 square miles), about twice the size of California, extending over a narrow...

Chile POPULATION 15,402,000 ROMAN CATHOLIC 77 percent EVANGELICAL PROTESTANT 12 percent OTHER PROTESTANT 1 percent ATHEIST/NONRELIGIOUS 6 percent OTHER 4 percent Country Overview Introduction Chile, on the western coast of South America, is long (2,880...

Chile 1907 The labor stoppage among the longshoremen and miners in Iquique, Chile, in the early twentieth century played a major role in the development of a working-class consciousness. Workers in the region viewed this labor mobilization as a source...

country situated along the western seaboard of South America and extending approximately 2,700 miles (4,300 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...

Country, southwestern South America. Area: 291,930 sq mi (756,096 sq km). Population (2005 est.): 16,295,000. Capital: Santiago. About three-fourths of Chileans are mestizos; most of the rest are of European ancestry or Aracanian (Mapuche) Indians. The...

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...