El Salvador is about 6 times smaller than Nicaragua.

Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, while El Salvador is approximately 21,041 sq km, making El Salvador 16.14% the size of Nicaragua. Meanwhile, the population of Nicaragua is ~6.3 million people (266,865 more people live in El Salvador).
This to-scale comparison of Nicaragua vs. El Salvador uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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