Why is Chile so long and narrow? #shorts #geopolitics #maps #countriesoftheworld

The country measures about 4000 km in length, which is similar to the distance between New York and Los Angeles.

However, on average Chile is just 177 km wide, which is half the distance between New York and Washington, DC.

But why does the country have this unusual shape?

There are two reasons for this, the first one being natural borders. The country is sandwiched between the Pacific Ocean and the Andes, the longest mountain range in the world.

The second reason is conquest: when Chile gained independence from Spain in 1818, it did not yet have the shape it has today, receiving its current appearance in the 1880s, when Chile conquered the resource-rich areas to the north from Bolivia and Peru during the War of the Pacific, turning Bolivia into a landlocked country - a fact about which Bolivia is still upset today. The southern areas, inhabited by the Mapuche people, were conquered by Chile around the same time.

[V-DTAJ]

Saying "I travelled all across Chile" can be either impressive or not so impressive.

[tuxillo]

Finally Chile got his independence and then started conquering. The irony.

[AbyssalSoda]

Don't you think we have long enough of a coast line?
Chile: *no*

[dingbat]

Americans: wtf is a kilometer?

Acceptable lengths: states, fields, alligators, washing machines, **any inanimate objects**

[baldwinthefourth]

"Why is this so long and narrow"
That's what she said

[snipertraderGBS]

I just wanna say thank you Marqo for these shorts! They are quality-made, entertaining and explaining political and historical stuff in under one minute! I'm excited for your next videos 💪

[DG-mvzw]

Bolivia is still very angry....as my bolivian wife has told me for almost 30 years. I think there's a monument on the Bolivia/Chile border of a Bolivian soldier stabbing a Chilean soldier that says " The sea belongs to us. To reclaim it is our duty."

[YvngCheerio]

Chile reminds me Croatia in the fact that it stole all the god damn coast

[magenta]

i find it so funny that Bolivia is still mad at us

[m.x.]

Chile didn't get independent from Spain, but rather got into a civil war between Spanish people (the Spanish indigenous people actually fought by the Spanish Monarchy side VS the Spanish criollos supported by the British Empire). Such civil war happened in the context of the Spanish Empire fall and led to the creation of a new country.

[くんヴィッツ]

El país que más me gusta. No es mi vecino(soy brasileño) pero son los más buena onda de sudamerica. La patagonia chilena es uno de los lugares más lindos del mundo. Un pueblo súper respetuoso y educado. Son siempre bienvenidos a Brasil. ❤

[marshalljohnson]

The only thing that supprised me is that Chileans are actually baddass for fighting the lands they have today.

I thought Spain just carve out the borders, leave the continent, and it stays there forever to make people upset and fight just like the British did.
I guess the Spaniards really teach their colony how to solve border issues for real, reconquista style.

[JaydenSecondChannel]

Him:"long and narrow"
Me:" dirty mind activated"

[Adam-ddfx]

These vids are very high quality, surprised to see u don't have more followers

[vega]

As a Chilean, I am proud that I have travelled throughout all of the regions of Chile.

[andrewd.]

Are we just gonna ignore how many times i've confused the chile flag with the texas state flag

[nickel]

Because they weren’t able to take more land in the east. If they could, they would. 😇😂

[far_above]

"Chile's very, very, very, very, very long and thin" -Jay Foreman

[felipecasanueva]

As a chilean anthropologist, and a son of a historian too, I can say with absolute confidence that your explanation for the southern territorial shape has serious mistakes.

First of all, Chile used to own the whole Patagonia region, from Rio Negro to the southeast. Which means we had a fairly large Atlantic coastline. This was lost in the 1881 treaty with Argentina, during the Pacific war, which was held between Bolivia and Perú against Chile (you mentioned part of that, which was correct).

On the other hand, the mapuche did not own all of the south, but rather from the Biobio river, up to the Ancud Gulf. Which is a tiny portion compared to the remaining 1500 km (940 mi) left southward. It is true that the mapuche controlled area was unconquered by the spaniards or the later chilean State, until the second half of the XIX century. That was called Pacificación de la Araucanía. You can search it up.
But also, there were many more indigenous peoples in the south of Chile, like the chonos, kaweskar, yamana. And if we wanted to be strict, the mapuche can be divided into more groups, like the pehuenche, the huilliche, the lafkenche, just to name a few.

I know your video is just a YouTube short, with a tiny amount of information, but please fact-check your content before publishing, because in this one, my friend, you are way off.

[grovermartin]

Very interesting, thank you! Your video entices me to learn much more about Chile.