Country size comparison
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El Salvador is about 28 times smaller than Botswana.
Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, while El Salvador is approximately 21,041 sq km, making El Salvador 3.62% the size of Botswana. Meanwhile, the population of Botswana is ~2.4 million people (4.2 million more people live in El Salvador).
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