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Put Chile over Europe and it goes from the northenmost tip of Norway all the way down to Libya and Egypt.

Put it over Australia and it’s only 30% longer. Australia is huge!

btw, this site completely obliterates your browser history.

Then put Australia over Africa and be blown away by the true scale of that continent.

The contiguous United States are slightly smaller than the Sahara.

Wow. That should lay rest to any questions about the slow progress of Sub-Saharan Africa in history. Crossing an expanse of desert that massive would be next to impossible before mechanized transport

That gives you an idea of the diversity of climates within Chile.

Ate least they only need one timezone.

Had they ended up in the longitudinal direction, they would have less climate changes but lots of timezones.

Haha that'd be annoying as hell.

We do have 2 timezones, though (because of Rapa Nui)

Since 2017 it's actually three timezones, because Punta Arenas got its own: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Chile

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