Country size comparison

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El Salvador is about 36 times smaller than Chile.

Chile is approximately 756,102 sq km, while El Salvador is approximately 21,041 sq km, making El Salvador 2.78% the size of Chile. Meanwhile, the population of Chile is ~18.4 million people (11.9 million fewer people live in El Salvador).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Chile vs. El Salvador uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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