Chile (IPA: /tʃɪl.i/), officially the Republic of Chile (Spanish: República de Chile (help·info)), is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow coastal strip wedged between the Andes mountain range and the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean, on the north by Peru, on the northeast by Bolivia, on the east by Argentina and on the south by the Drake Passage. Chile claims 1,250,000 km² of territory in Antarctica.