Country size comparison
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El Salvador is about 19 times smaller than California.
California is approximately 403,882 sq km, while El Salvador is approximately 21,041 sq km, making El Salvador 5.21% the size of California. Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people (30.7 million fewer people live in El Salvador).
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