06/13/2026
Chile is one of the longest north-to-south countries on Earth, stretching about 4,270 km (2,650 miles) from its northern border with Peru to its southern tip near Cape Horn.
If you could pick up Chile and lay it across the North Atlantic, it would be long enough to span the shortest distance between Canada and Spain.
Despite covering more than 38 degrees of latitude, Chile is remarkably narrow, averaging only about 177 km (110 miles) wide. This unique shape gives the country an incredible range of climates and landscapes, from the Atacama Desert, one of the driest places on Earth, to glaciers, fjords, and subpolar forests in Patagonia.