Country size comparison
compared to
El Salvador is about 4.9 times smaller than Virginia.
Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, while El Salvador is approximately 21,041 sq km, making El Salvador 20.52% the size of Virginia. Meanwhile, the population of Virginia is ~8.0 million people (1.4 million fewer people live in El Salvador).
This to-scale comparison of
Virginia
vs.
El Salvador
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