Country size comparison
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El Salvador is about 31 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while El Salvador is approximately 21,041 sq km, making El Salvador 3.23% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (31.8 million fewer people live in El Salvador).
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