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Chile, officially the Republic of Chile (Spanish: <phonos file="RepChile.ogg">República de Chile</phonos>), is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow coastal strip wedged between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean. The Pacific forms the country's entire western border, with Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage at the country's southernmost tip. Chile claims 1,250,000 square kilometres (480,000 sq mi) of territory in Antarctica.

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The War of the Pacific, sometimes called the Saltpeter War in reference to its original cause, was fought between Chile and the joint forces of Bolivia and Peru, from 1879 to 1883. Chile gained substantial mineral-rich territory in the conflict, annexing both the Peruvian province of Tarapacá and the Bolivian province of Litoral, leaving Bolivia as a landlocked country.

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Saint Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga, born Luis Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga (January 22, 1901 Viña del Mar, Chile - August 18, 1952, Santiago, Chile), was a Chilean Jesuit priest, social worker and writer, founder of the Hogar de Cristo movement. He was canonized on October 23, 2005 by Pope Benedict XVI, becoming his country's second saint.

A Magellanic Penguin (Spheniscus magellanicus) near Punta Arenas.

• ...that Ojos del Salado is the highest mountain in Chile and the highest volcano in the world?
• ...that the Chinchorro mummies are the oldest examples of mummified human remains, dating to thousands of years before the Egyptian mummies?

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