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Chile is long enough to span many climates

It runs about 4,300 kilometres north to south while averaging only around 180 wide The country stretches from the Atacama, one of the driest deserts, to glaciers and temperate rainforest in the far south. The Andes rise along its eastern edge and the Pacific lies to the west, so most of the population lives in the central valley between them. Its length means the north and south barely share a climate. It sits in Mondo's world geography collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: It runs about 4,300 kilometres north to south while averaging only around 180 wide. The figure is taken from CIA World Factbook, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a world geography fact?: Yes. It sits on the World Geography shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.