Country size comparison
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El Salvador is about 16 times smaller than Vietnam.
Vietnam is approximately 331,210 sq km, while El Salvador is approximately 21,041 sq km, making El Salvador 6.35% the size of Vietnam. Meanwhile, the population of Vietnam is ~103.8 million people (97.2 million fewer people live in El Salvador).
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