Chile

Flag of Chile

Short Bio: 

• Name: Republic de Chile ( Republic of Chile)
  
• An UN-Member?: Yes
• Capital: Santiago
• Continent: South America
• Area: 7,59,626 sq.km
• Population: (Approx)
• Religion: Christian-87.5%, Others-12.5%
• Literacy: 97% (Approx)
• Language: Spanish
• Currency: Chilean Peso
• Income (Per Capita): $14,950 (Approx)
• Avg life span: 78.7 years (Approx)
• Date of Independence: 18^th September 1810
• Government type: Republic
• President: Sebastian Pinera Echenique
• Prime minister: *
• Chief Mineral Resource: Copper
• Principal Crop: Wheat
• Main Industry: Fish processing, Textile, Wood industry.
• Main exports: Copper
• Main imports: It has to import 1/3^rd of its food.

Location:

• The Republic of Chile lies on Western seaboard of South America.
• It occupies strip of land between Peru and Bolivia in the North to Cape Horn in South.

History:

• It is the first South American country to elect a Marxist Govt.
• The govt fell in a military coup in 1973.
• Human rights violations were charged against Augusto Pinochet.
• Pinochet was arrested in London in 2000 and was put under house arrest.
• He was declared unfit to stand in trial in July 2001.