Chile is a unitary presidential republic occupying a narrow strip of land between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean in South America's Southern Cone, the southernmost country in the world, with Santiago as its capital and largest city and a bicameral legislature of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies. Chile declared independence from Spanish rule on 12 February 1818 after a period of armed conflict, and Spain formally recognized that independence on 25 April 1844. The country lived through a sixteen and a half year right wing military dictatorship under Augusto Pinochet from 1973 to 1990, marked by documented human rights violations, before transitioning to democracy; its current constitutional framework dates to 11 March 1981, adopted during the military period. Covering 756,102 square kilometers with about 18.5 million people as of the 2024 census, Chile functions today as a high income economy and joined the OECD in 2010.
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Chile declared independence in 1810, so why does this atlas date the state to 1818?
Independence was first declared in 1810; this atlas dates the state from the 1818 declaration.
Chilean revolutionaries declared Chile's independence on 18 September 1810, after Napoleon's armies invaded Spain in 1808 and captured the Spanish monarch, Ferdinand VII, which sparked revolutionary movements across Spain's American colonies. Several years of fighting followed. This atlas dates the independent state from the formal declaration of 12 February 1818, so the two dates mark the start of the break from Spain and the declaration that this atlas treats as the founding of the state.
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Unitary presidential republic
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Santiago
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Declared 12 February 1818
Chile: Status
Chile is a unitary presidential republic occupying a narrow strip of land between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean in South America's Southern Cone, the southernmost country in the world, with Santiago as its capital and largest city and a bicameral legislature of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies.
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Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the Southern Cone of southwestern South America.
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a military overthrow of the socialist president of Chile Salvador Allende
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