The smallest country in Central America and the only one without a Caribbean coastline.
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El Salvador
Republic of El Salvador
North America
ยท Central America
0Population
21.04Kkmยฒ of land
$4.19KGDP / person
San SalvadorCapital
- ISO codes
- SV ยท SLV
- Density
- 307 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Spanish
- Currency
- United States dollar (USD)
- Dial code
- +503
- Internet domain
- .sv
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 13.6850ยฐ N, 88.8900ยฐ W
- Demonym
- Salvadoran
- UN region
- Americas ยท Central America
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- Lower middle income
- Total GDP
- $27.02B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 2
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By the numbers
How El Salvador stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
112th
of 242 ยท 0.08% of world population
Land area
152nd
of 242 ยท 0.01% of world land
GDP per person
156th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
41st
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about El Salvador
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 6,453,553 people, the 112th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 1,190 of everyone alive.
Covers 21,041 kmยฒ, making it the 152nd largest country here - about 8.1 times the size of Luxembourg.
Population density is about 307 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is San Salvador, at 13.71ยฐ N, 89.20ยฐ W, with a metropolitan population of about 1,433,000.
Shares land borders with 2 countries: Guatemala and Honduras.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, America/El Salvador.
The currency is the United States dollar (USD, symbol $).
The official language is Spanish.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
America/El Salvador
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UTCโ06:00
Cities
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San Salvador
San Salvador
13.7119ยฐ N, 89.2050ยฐ W
1.43M
Land neighbours
2 countries share a border with El Salvador.