We map the conformation space of a short lattice polymer chain to a network
, where i) the vertices of the network have a one-to-one correspondence to
the conformations of the chain, and ii) a link between two vertices indicat
es the possibility of switching from one conformation to the other by a sin
gle Monte Carlo move of the chain. We find that the geometric properties of
this network are similar to those of small-world networks, namely, the dia
meter of conformation space increases, for large networks, as the logarithm
of the number of conformations, while locally the network appears to have
low dimensionality.