Country size comparison
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El Salvador is about 59 times smaller than Mali.
Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, while El Salvador is approximately 21,041 sq km, making El Salvador 1.7% the size of Mali. Meanwhile, the population of Mali is ~20.7 million people (14.2 million fewer people live in El Salvador).
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