Country size comparison

compared to

El Salvador is about 2 times smaller than Netherlands.

Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, while El Salvador is approximately 21,041 sq km, making El Salvador 50.65% the size of Netherlands. Meanwhile, the population of Netherlands is ~17.4 million people (10.8 million fewer people live in El Salvador).

Tip: This to-scale comparison of Netherlands vs. El Salvador uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.