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title: "Chile — capital, area, population and currency"
description: "Chile: capital Santiago, area 756,102 km², population 19,859,921 (2025), currency Chilean peso. Languages, time zones and calling code."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country/chile/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Chile

**Chile: Capital Santiago**

756,102 km² · 19,859,921 people (2025) · Chilean peso

About 4,300 km from north to south and averaging only around 177 km wide — one of the most elongated countries on Earth. The Atacama in the north is the driest non-polar desert in the world, and some weather stations there have never recorded rain. That dryness and altitude is why most of the world's large optical telescopes are built here.

## The facts

- **Capital:** Santiago
- **Area:** 756,102 km² — 291,932 sq mi
- **Population:** 19,859,921 (2025)
- **Density:** 26.3 people per km²
- **Currency:** Chilean peso (CLP, $)
- **Official language:** Spanish
- **Time zones:** UTC-06:00, UTC-04:00, UTC-03:00
- **Calling code:** +56
- **Drives on the:** right
- **ISO codes:** CL · CHL
- **Continent:** South America

## How it compares

- **By area:** 38 of 200
- **By population:** 66 of 200

> Population is the only figure on this page that dates — it is a 2025 estimate and will drift. Area, capital, currency, languages, calling code and driving side change rarely or never.

## Countries of a similar size

| Country | Area (km²) | Population |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pakistan | 796,095 | 255,219,554 |
| Turkey | 783,562 | 85,878,556 |
| Chile ← | 756,102 | 19,859,921 |
| Zambia | 752,618 | 21,913,874 |
| Morocco | 716,550 | 38,430,770 |

## Common questions

### What is the capital of Chile?

Santiago

### What currency does Chile use?

The Chilean peso (CLP).

### How big is Chile?

756,102 km², or 291,932 square miles — 38 of 200 by area.

### Which side of the road does Chile drive on?

The right.

## Related pages

- [Pakistan](https://atoneplace.net/country/pakistan/)
- [Turkey](https://atoneplace.net/country/turkey/)
- [Zambia](https://atoneplace.net/country/zambia/)
- [Morocco](https://atoneplace.net/country/morocco/)
- [Brazil](https://atoneplace.net/country/brazil/)
- [Colombia](https://atoneplace.net/country/colombia/)
- [Argentina](https://atoneplace.net/country/argentina/)
- [Peru](https://atoneplace.net/country/peru/)
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- [Bolivia](https://atoneplace.net/country/bolivia/)
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## Sources

- The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency (https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/) [Public domain (US Government)]
- World Bank Open Data — The World Bank (https://data.worldbank.org/) [CC BY 4.0]