Description: Ushuaia, capital of Argentina's province of Tierra del Fuego, is the world's southernmost city.
It is located at 54°48′00″S, 068°18′00″W on the southern coast of the island of Tierra del Fuego, in a setting surrounded by mountains and overlooking the Beagle Channel. The city has about 50,000 inhabitants.
In other times, Puerto Williams in Chile was considered to be the southernmost city — it is farther south but has fewer inhabitants, thus some consider it to be a town rather than a city. The more populated Punta Arenas is also sometimes considered to be the southernmost city, but it is north of Ushuaia. The southernmost continuously inhabited settlement is Puerto Toro on Isla Navarino, but it has fewer than 100 residents and is more properly called a village.
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