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<text>
<title>
Chile: Geography
</title>
<article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Chile
Geography</hdr><body>
<p>Location: Western South America, bordering the South Pacific
Ocean between Argentina and Peru
</p>
<list>
<l>Area:</l>
<l> total area: 756,950 km2</l>
<l> land area: 748,800 km2</l>
<l> comparative area: slightly smaller than twice the size of
Montana</l>
</list>
<p>note: includes Isla de Pascua (Easter Island) and Isla Sala y
Gomez
</p>
<p>Land boundaries: total 6,171 km, Argentina 5,150 km, Bolivia
861 km, Peru 160 km
</p>
<p>Coastline: 6,435 km
</p>
<list>
<l>Maritime claims:</l>
<l> contiguous zone: 24 nm</l>
<l> continental shelf: 200 nm</l>
<l> exclusive economic zone: 200 nm</l>
<l> territorial sea: 12 nm</l>
</list>
<p>International disputes: short section of the southern boundary
with Argentina is indefinite; Bolivia has wanted a sovereign
corridor to the South Pacific Ocean since the Atacama area was
lost to Chile in 1884; dispute with Bolivia over Rio Lauca water
rights; territorial claim in Antarctica (Chilean Antarctic
Territory) partially overlaps Argentine and British claims
</p>
<p>Climate: temperate; desert in north; cool and damp in south
</p>
<p>Terrain: low coastal mountains; fertile central valley; rugged
Andes in east
</p>
<p>Natural resources: copper, timber, iron ore, nitrates,
precious metals, molybdenum
</p>
<list>
<l>Land use:</l>
<l> arable land: 7%</l>
<l> permanent crops: 0%</l>
<l> meadows and pastures: 16%</l>
<l> forest and woodland: 21%</l>
<l> other: 56%</l>
</list>
<p>Irrigated land: 12,650 km2 (1989 est.)
</p>
<p>Environment: subject to severe earthquakes, active volcanism,
tsunami; Atacama Desert one of world's driest regions;
desertification
</p>
<p>Note: strategic location relative to sea lanes between
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans (Strait of Magellan, Beagle Channel,
Drake Passage)
</p></body></article></text>