Country size comparison

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El Salvador is about 24 times smaller than Spain.

Spain is approximately 505,370 sq km, while El Salvador is approximately 21,041 sq km, making El Salvador 4.16% the size of Spain. Meanwhile, the population of Spain is ~47.2 million people (40.6 million fewer people live in El Salvador).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Spain vs. El Salvador uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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