Country size comparison
compared to
El Salvador is about 7 times smaller than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while El Salvador is approximately 21,041 sq km, making El Salvador 14.62% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (6.3 million fewer people live in El Salvador).
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