El Salvador is about 5 times smaller than Guatemala.

Guatemala is approximately 108,889 sq km, while El Salvador is approximately 21,041 sq km, making El Salvador 19.32% the size of Guatemala. Meanwhile, the population of Guatemala is ~17.7 million people (11.1 million fewer people live in El Salvador).
This to-scale comparison of Guatemala vs. El Salvador uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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