# Continental Chile

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{{Short description|Term denoting Chilean territory on the American continent}}
[[File:The three areas of Chile.svg|thumb|right|250px|Map of the three areas dividing the Chilean territory:<br />{{legend|#4D6DF3|Continental Chile}}
{{legend|#C12838|[Insular Chile](/source/Insular_Chile)}}{{legend|#22B14C|[Chilean Antarctica](/source/Chilean_Antarctic_Territory)}}]]

'''Continental Chile''' is the name given to the [Chile](/source/Chile)an territory located on the continental shelf of [South America](/source/South_America). This term serves to distinguish the South American area from the insular territories, known as '''[Insular Chile](/source/Insular_Chile)''', as from the '''[Chilean Antarctica](/source/Chilean_Antarctic_Territory)''' (Chilean Antarctic Territory). The existence of this three areas of effective or claimed Chilean [sovereignty](/source/sovereignty) is what supports the existing [tricontinental principle](/source/tricontinental_principle) in this country.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gob.cl/en/our-country/ |title=Our Country |publisher=Government of Chile}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.icarito.cl/medio/articulo/0%2C0%2C38035857_152308993_152512596_1%2C00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080613235801/http://www.icarito.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,38035857_152308993_152512596_1,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 13, 2008 |title=Chile: un país tricontinental |accessdate =March 29, 2008 |author=Icarito |editor-link=www.icarito.cl|language=es}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.acague.cl/publicaciones/CD19/sel/3/a3.pdf |title=Principios geopolíticos de Chile |accessdate=March 29, 2008 |author=Instituto Geopolítico de Chile |date= |editor-link=www.acague.cl |language=es }}{{Dead link|date=July 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

The term "Continental Chile Time" specifies the [time zone](/source/time_zone) of most of Continental Chile, [Juan Fernández Islands](/source/Juan_Fern%C3%A1ndez_Islands) and [Desventuradas Islands](/source/Desventuradas_Islands), as [UTC−4](/source/UTC%E2%88%924) in winter and [UTC−3](/source/UTC%E2%88%923) in summer. However, the [regions](/source/regions_of_Chile) of [Aysén](/source/Ays%C3%A9n_Region) and [Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica](/source/Magallanes_Region) use UTC−3 all year. [Easter Island](/source/Easter_Island) and [Isla Salas y Gómez](/source/Isla_Salas_y_G%C3%B3mez), both in [Polynesia](/source/Polynesia), use [UTC−6](/source/UTC%E2%88%926) in winter and [UTC−5](/source/UTC%E2%88%925) in summer.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bcn.cl/leychile/navegar?idNorma=1125760 |title=Decreto 1286 |trans-title=Decree 1286 |publisher=Library of the National Congress of Chile |date=20 March 2025 |language=es}}</ref>

Continental Chile has a surface of 756,770&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>, representing 99.976% of the total surface of the country under effective administration. However, considering the claim in [Antarctic](/source/Antarctic), this percent fall down to only 37.71% of national's surface.

With regard to the population, according to the 2002 census, it had a total of 15,111,881 inhabitants, corresponding to 99.97% of the national population.

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