Country size comparison
compared to
El Salvador is about 58 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while El Salvador is approximately 21,041 sq km, making El Salvador 1.73% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (50.9 million fewer people live in El Salvador).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
El Salvador
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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