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CHILE Chile's unusual, ribbon-like shape - 4,300 km long and on average 175 km wide - has given it a hugely varied climate.
This ranges from the world's driest desert in the north, through a Mediterranean climate in the centre, to a snow-prone Alpine climate in the south, with glaciers, fjords and lakes.
Consisting largely of people of mixed Spanish and indigenous descent, Chile is divided socially and politically, with an elite controlling much of the land and wealth. But, with one exception, it has been relatively free of the coups and arbitrary governments that have blighted the region.
- Capital City: Santiago
- Population: 15.8 million (UN, 2003)
- Major language: Spanish
- Major religion: Christianity
- Life expectancy: 73 years (men), 79 years (women) (UN)
- Monetary unit: Chilean peso
- Main exports: Copper, fish, fruits, paper and pulp, chemicals
- Average annual income: US$4,590 (World Bank, 2001)
- Internet domain: .cl
- International dialling code: +56
THE MEDIA A 2001 press freedom act swept away many of the Pinochet-era restrictions on the media. - The press
- El Mercurio - conservative daily
- La Tercera - daily
- La Nacion - government-owned daily
- La Segunda - conservative evening daily
- El Diario - business daily
- Santiago Times - English-language
- Television
- National Television of Chile - state-owned but not under direct government control
- TV Universidad Catolica de Chile (TVUC) - owned by Catholic university
- Chilevision - owned by Venezuela's Cisneros Group
- Megavision - private network
- Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso - owned by Catholic university
- Red TV - commercial
- Radio
- Radio Nacional de Chile
- Radio Cooperativa - news-based national commercial network
- Pudahuel FM - commercial
- Bio Bio La Radio - commercial FM station
- El Conquistador FM - commercial network
- Radio Horizonte - music-based FM network
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