Country size comparison
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El Salvador is about 58 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while El Salvador is approximately 21,041 sq km, making El Salvador 1.73% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (50.9 million fewer people live in El Salvador).
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