Country size comparison
compared to
El Salvador is about 1.7 times smaller than Taiwan.
Taiwan is approximately 35,980 sq km, while El Salvador is approximately 21,041 sq km, making El Salvador 58.48% the size of Taiwan. Meanwhile, the population of Taiwan is ~23.6 million people (17.0 million fewer people live in El Salvador).
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