The world's longest and narrowest country The north and south ends are deserted, and the mystery of Latin America has been revealed
In the history of a country's long-term stable development, it is inseparable from the strong control of the country throughout the country. A country can be stable for a long time only if there is sufficient internal cohesion, and vice versa. For example, in the early years of the Han Dynasty, ** divided the whole country to the princes and kings, allowing them to monopolize one side, which eventually led to the uprising of the Wu-Chu Seven Kingdoms Alliance, threatening the establishment of the Han Dynasty. This applies not only to China, but also to the world.
We know that some countries are separated from each other due to geographical factors and other influences, which fundamentally makes it difficult to centralize governance in different places and form sufficient internal cohesion. For example, called:"The Land of Ten Thousand Islands"Indonesia and Vietnam are both extremely long and narrow countries, without strong national cohesion, and their development is very slow. However, there is one country in the world that is older than Vietnam, but has developed steadily and become the richest country in the region.
This country is Chile, the full name of which is the Republic of Chile. Chile is located in the southwest of South America, bordering the Pacific Ocean, with an area of 756,700 square kilometers and a population of about 18.6 million. Chile's coastline is about 10,000 kilometers long, 4,352 kilometers long from north to south, and only 362 kilometers wide from east to west (96 kilometers at its narrowest point), which is narrower than the terrain of Vietnam, making it the longest and narrowest country in the world. However, the country's narrow length did not hinder Chile's economic development, which has become increasingly prosperous and one of the richest countries in Latin America.
Chile is not one of the largest countries in Latin America in terms of land size and population, let alone a large country. Chile has a latitude of 38 degrees, which makes the geographical differences between the regions of Chile very large. The northern part of Chile is mountainous and desert, the driest place in the world, while the southern part is an extremely cold plateau, and only the central region has fertile soil and abundant rainfall, which is suitable for human habitation.
Today, Chile's per capita GDP is second only to Uruguay and more than Argentina, Brazil and other large Latin American countries. In 2018, Chile's GDP per capita reached 15,923At $36, six times as much as Vietnam, which has the same narrow stretch of land, it is one of the richest countries in Latin America. Chile has a high quality of life and a stable political environment, becoming the first South American member of the OECD in 2010 and recognized as a high-income economy by the World Bank Group. It should be emphasized that Chile's success is due not only to its small size, but also to its special conditions for development.
Like Vietnam, Chile is a long and narrow country, but it has a variety of natural resources within the country. Northern Chile is the Atacama Desert, which stretches for 1,000 kilometers without rainfall and has an extremely dry climate, making it one of the driest regions in the world. However, in this desert there is a narrow salt flat 750 km long and 23-30 km wide. The abundant saltpeter resources have brought huge economic benefits to Chile, and not only that, Chile has almost monopolized the international market for natural saltpeter. The southern region of Chile belongs to the plateau and extremely cold region, inaccessible, but even so, the southern region retains a large number of rare and original landscapes, under the vigorous promotion of **, a large number of domestic and foreign tourists come every year, bringing a lot of tourism income to Chile.
Looking at the central region of Chile, thanks to abundant precipitation and fertile soils, it has adopted a rational policy to develop large-scale animal husbandry. In this region, Chile has cultivated a large number of commercial forests and raised a large number of livestock, and animal husbandry and forestry have become the backbone of the Chilean economy. The central region is also rich in copper resources, with annual copper reserves of hundreds of millions of tons, and copper mining has become an important pillar of Chile's economy, accounting for 20% of Chile's gross domestic product (GDP) in annual copper exports.
Chile is also rich in fisheries, which formed along the Peruvian cold front"Peruvian Fishing Grounds"。The proximity to the world-famous Peruvian fishing grounds provides a good base for the Chilean aquaculture industry, making Chile one of the world's leading producers of farmed salmon and trout.
Chile's long and narrow territory, rich natural resources, high domestic integrity, coupled with the best development capabilities, have enabled Chile to get out of the trough and become one of the economic superpowers in South America.