Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Santiago
- Region
- Americas, South America
- Population
- 19,859,921 (2025)
- Area
- 756,950 km²
- Currency
- Chilean peso (CLP)
- Languages
- Spanish
- Calling code
- +56
- Internet domain
- .cl
- ISO codes
- CL, CHL, 152
- Time zone
- UTC-5:00 to UTC-3:00
- United Nations
- Member state
- Postal code pattern
- ####### (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
Chile covers about 756,950 square kilometres. By area it ranks 39th among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Türkiye and a little larger than Zambia. It shares a land border with 3 neighbours: Argentina, Bolivia, Peru. Its centre lies at about 30° south, 71° west, in the southern hemisphere.
Neighbours
People
About 19.9 million people live in Chile (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 66th most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure, with about 0.24 percent of the world's people. On average there are 26 people to each square kilometre. About 89 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 81 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: Spanish. A person from Chile is called Chilean.
Money and economy
The currency is the Chilean peso (code CLP, symbol $). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 357 billion (2025), which is about US$ 17,995 for each person (2025).
Time
Chile spans 4 time zone areas, from UTC-5:00 to UTC-3:00. Clocks are moved for daylight saving time in part of the year.
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Offsets are for January 2026. See Time Zones for a converter.
Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Santiago | 4,837,295 |
| Puente Alto | 568,106 |
| Maipú | 503,635 |
| Antofagasta | 401,096 |
| Viña del Mar | 334,248 |
| Valparaíso | 282,448 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in South America
Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Falkland Islands, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Suriname. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.