Easter Island (Rapa Nui: Rapa Nui, Spanish: Isla de Pascua) is a Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle.

Chile annexes Easter Island as a special territory in 1888.

Administratively, it belongs to the Valparaíso Region and more specifically, is the only commune of the Province Isla de Pascua.

UNESCO names Easter Island a World Heritage Site in 1995, with much of the island protected within Rapa Nui National Park.

According to the 2012 census, it has about fifty-eight hundred residents, of which some sixty percent are descendants of the aboriginal Rapa Nui.