Chile
/ˈtʃɪlɪ/- a country occupying a long coastal strip down the southern half of the west of South America; pop. 16,601, 700 (est. 2009); official language, Spanish; capital, Santiago.智利（拥有南美洲西南部狭长海岸, 2009年估计人口16,601, 700, 官方语言西班牙语, 首都圣地亚哥）。
Most of Chile was part of the Inca empire and became part of Spanish Peru after Pizarro's conquest. Independence was achieved in 1818 with help from Argentina. After the overthrow of the Marxist democrat Salvador Allende in 1973, Chile was ruled by the right-wing military dictatorship of General Pinochet until a democratically elected President took office in 1990.
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