Geography

**Geography **
Chile has fascinating by geography. Chile is surpisingly very long and skinny! The country stretches over 4,300 km (2,700 mi) along the southwestern coast of South America. Which is roughly as long as the distance from Melbourne, Australia to Invercargill New Zealand and back again! At the same time, its width never exceeds 240 km (150 mi), which means the country more than **eighteen times longer** than its widest point.

The most impressive thing about Chile's splenderous slenderness is the massively wicked wall of the Andes, a mountain range that is still getting bigger! The Andes has more than more than **fifty active volcanic peaks**. On the western side of Chile the land slopes into the Pacific Ocean. On the north side the land rises up and is more arid. It is on the north side that you will find the awesome Atacama Desert, one of the most inhospitable regions on earth.