Country size comparison
compared to
El Salvador is about 2 times smaller than Switzerland.
Switzerland is approximately 41,277 sq km, while El Salvador is approximately 21,041 sq km, making El Salvador 50.98% the size of Switzerland. Meanwhile, the population of Switzerland is ~8.5 million people (1.9 million fewer people live in El Salvador).
This to-scale comparison of
Switzerland
vs.
El Salvador
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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