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Russia is larger than Chile in the area but does not experience climatic diversity as Chile. Explain.

Answer 1

1. The latitude and longitude of Russia are 61.5240°N and 105.3188°E respectively. It is located in northern Asia, between Europe on one side and the North Pacific Ocean on the other side.
2. Chile is situated along the western margin of the South American continent. Its latitude and longitude are 35.6751°8 and 71.5430°W respectively.
3. Russia has a continental location since it is surrounded south and west by huge landmass, and to the north lies the Arctic ocean which is frozen, so it is like snow covered the land.
4. Thus, due to continental location, there are dry summer and very cold winters with temperatures of -30° and less and sometimes heavy snowfall.
5. The winter is mostly dry, snow covers the ground from the end of October to mid-March.
6. In Chile, the coastal location and the east-west extent is very less.
7. There is a lot of climatic diversity in Chile. There is the Atacama Desert in the north, the Mediterranean climate at the central part, extremely cold climate in the east.
8. The most important factors that control the climate of Chile are Pacific anticyclone, cold Humboldt ocean current and mountain ranges along the coastline.
9. Thus, though Russia is larger than Chile in the area but does not experience climatic diversity as Chile.