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B. Running about 4,300 miles along the western edge of South America, the Andes is the world's longest continental mountain range. The Atacama Desert lies on a 600-mile western plateau of the Andes, and it may be the oldest desert on earth - at least 3 million years old. It averages an annual rainfall of a about a half-inch but some weather stations in the Atacama have never received rain.
C. Chile borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far south. The nation also claims 480,000 square miles of Antarctica, the world's largest desert. The Atacama Desert lies just south of the border between Chile and Peru.
D. With more than 5 million people in the metropolitan area, Santiago also is Chile's largest city. Government officials in Santiago fear the nation's drought, which began in 2007, is the result of climate change and could signal long-term changes with precipitation decreasing 40 to 50 percent by mid-century.
A. Chile leads Latin American nations in rankings of human development, competitiveness, income per capita, globalization, state of peace, economic freedom, and low perception of corruption.