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- Chile is the longest country in the world with around 2,600 miles of coastline
- The Atacama Desert is so dry it is used as a training ground for Mars rovers
- Chile holds the record for the world’s largest swimming pool
- Chile has the record for the largest recorded earthquake
- Chile contains the world’s oldest mummies
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Easter Island, home to Moai statues (🗿 ) was annexed by Chile in 1888
- Chile is home to more than 130 volcanoes including the world’s highest
- The inspiration for Herman Melville's 1851 novel, Moby Dick, is the legendary albino sperm whale known as Mocha Dick. Mocha Dick was a massive, scarred white whale that inhabited the waters off Mocha Island in southern Chile, destroying dozens of whaling ships and escaping many others before being killed in the late 1830s.
- Population – about 19 million, similar to Romania, a bit more than The Netherlands
- Chile is home to the Guinness World Record Holder for the world’s biggest swimming pool. Housed at the San Alfonso del Mar Resort, the pool stretches the length of 20 Olympic-sized swimming pools and holds 66 million gallons.
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