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Why is Chile so long?

Chile is so long, it's curved. How long is it? Why not longer? Why is no other country as thin? How does that make Chileans incomprehensible?

So all of southern Chile is green, but only the northern half of that is warm enough for comfortable living (and close to other countries' centers of population). Few locals and lots of neighbors means this area was contested for a long time after the Spanish Empire collapsed. It’s extremely isolated by the Andes, the ocean in the west, the ice in the south, and the desert in the north, making its connection even to Argentina, Bolivia or Peru really hard.

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