Country size comparison
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El Salvador is about 8 times smaller than Uruguay.
Uruguay is approximately 176,215 sq km, while El Salvador is approximately 21,041 sq km, making El Salvador 11.94% the size of Uruguay. Meanwhile, the population of Uruguay is ~3.4 million people (3.0 million more people live in El Salvador).
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