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South America > Chile > Government

CHILEAN GOVERNMENT STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Capital city
Santiago
Corruption 7.3 [22nd of 160]
Parliamentary seats > Female 11% [64th of 143]
Procedures to register property > number 6 ... [76th of 167]
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament > % 15 % ... [82nd of 174]
Start-up procedures to register a business > number 9 ... [85th of 171]
Status
democracy
Suffrage
18 years of age; universal and compulsory
Time required to build a warehouse > days 171 days ... [96th of 168]
Time required to enforce a contract > days 480 days ... [85th of 171]
Time required to register property > days 31 days ... [118th of 167]
Time required to start a business > days 27 days ... [110th of 171]
Time to prepare and pay taxes > hours 432 hours ... [33rd of 169]
Time to resolve insolvency > years 5.6 years ... [12th of 151]
Trademarks, nonresidents 10,114 ... [13th of 99]
Trademarks, residents 24,867 ... [11th of 98]
Transnational Issues > Disputes > International
Chile rebuffs Bolivia's reactivated claim to restore the Atacama corridor, ceded to Chile in 1884, offering instead unrestricted but not sovereign maritime access through Chile to Bolivian gas and other commodities; Chile rejects Peru's unilateral legislation to change its latitudinal maritime boundary with Chile to an equidistance line with a southwestern axis favoring Peru; territorial claim in Antarctica (Chilean Antarctic Territory) partially overlaps Argentine and British claims; the joint boundary commission, established by Chile and Argentina in 2001, has yet to map and demarcate the delimited boundary in the inhospitable Andean Southern Ice Field (Campo de Hielo Sur)
UN membership date 24 Oct. 1945
United Nations mission
http://www.un.int/chile/indexenglish
Washington, D.C. embassies > Neighborhood Embassy Row

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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; Transparency International; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook; World Development Indicators database; electionworld.org; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; Wisconsin High School Model United Nations; Wikipedia: List of Washington, D.C. embassies

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Chile, Republic of Chile, Republica de Chile

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