Chile is often thought to be the longest country in the world but these assumptions are wrong, with the record going to a fellow South American country.

Measuring a whopping 2,731 miles long from north to south, Brazil is the longest country in the world.

This forms an enormous triangle on the eastern side of the continent with a 4,654-mile coastline along the Atlantic Ocean. 

Chile stretches over 2,670 miles north to south, but it is only 217 miles at its widest point east to west and 40 miles at its narrowest point east to west.