Country size comparison
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El Salvador is about 156 times smaller than India.
India is approximately 3,287,263 sq km, while El Salvador is approximately 21,041 sq km, making El Salvador 0.64% the size of India. Meanwhile, the population of India is ~1.4 billion people (1.4 billion fewer people live in El Salvador).
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