Country size comparison
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El Salvador is about 9 times smaller than Syria.
Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while El Salvador is approximately 21,041 sq km, making El Salvador 11.23% the size of Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (15.0 million fewer people live in El Salvador).
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