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Santiago

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Country: Chile

Population:4,837,248

Time Zone:UTC-2

Founded as Santiago de Chile, the city grew into Chile’s capital and largest urban centre. It spreads across the Central Valley in the Santiago Basin, framed by the Andes to the east and the Chilean Coastal Range to the west. Greater Santiago brings together more than forty communes, holding over a third of the country’s population and about 45% of its GDP.