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Geography · True or False?

Easter Island is a territory of Argentina

The answer is False.

Explanation

It is a territory of Chile, located about 3,540 km (2,200 miles) west of the Chilean mainland in the southeastern Pacific. It is famous for the moai statues carved by the Rapa Nui people roughly between 1250 and 1500. Fun fact: it was named by Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen, who arrived on Easter Sunday, 1722.

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