Country size comparison
compared to
El Salvador is about 2 times smaller than Netherlands.
Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, while El Salvador is approximately 21,041 sq km, making El Salvador 50.65% the size of Netherlands. Meanwhile, the population of Netherlands is ~17.4 million people (10.8 million fewer people live in El Salvador).
This to-scale comparison of
Netherlands
vs.
El Salvador
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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