Map of Chile

Chile is located in South America. Its territory lies in the southern and western hemispheres, centred near 30.0° S, 71.0° W. It shares land borders with 3 countries — Argentina, Bolivia and Peru — and also has its own coastline. Within South America, a continent of 12 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, Chile is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Chile shares land frontiers with the following 3 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Chile covers about 756,102 km² (291,933 sq mi). That makes it the 37th-largest country in the world by area and the 7th-largest in South America, larger by area than 5 of the continent’s 12 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 20,206,953, the 64th-largest in the world and the 6th-largest in South America, accounting for about 4.6% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Chile has an average population density of about 27 people per km². Among the 12 countries of South America it stands 6th by population and 7th by area.

The seat of government is Santiago, and the official currency is the Chilean peso (CLP, $), and the main official language is Spanish. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes time zones UTC-06:00 and UTC-04:00.

Chile carries the ISO country codes CL and CHL, dials on the international calling code +56 and uses the .cl internet domain.

Chile shares its land borders with 3 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Argentina (capital Buenos Aires, about 46,735,004 people), Peru (capital Lima, about 34,350,244 people) and Bolivia (capital Sucre, about 11,365,333 people).

By area, Chile is larger than 0 of these neighbours and smaller than 3 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 30.0° S, 71.0° W and opens at zoom level 5, framing Chile within South America. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Santiago. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Chile lies about 3,330 km from the equator, in the southern and western hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Chile spans 2 time zones, from UTC-06:00 to UTC-04:00, reflecting the spread of its territory across the globe. Each is expressed as an offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC); where a country covers several zones, the official local time can differ from one part of it to another.

The official currency is the Chilean peso (CLP, $).

The official language is Spanish, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +56 and websites commonly use the .cl internet domain.

In short, Chile is a coastal country in South America, sharing land borders with 3 countries. Its capital is Santiago. Chile has a population of about 20,206,953 and covers around 756,102 km² (291,933 sq mi), ranking it 64th in the world by population and 37th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Chile.

The flag of Chile is composed of two equal horizontal bands of white and red, with a blue square of the same height as the white band superimposed in the canton. A white five-pointed star is centered in the blue square.

The flag of Chile is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.