Country size comparison
compared to
Nicaragua is about 6 times bigger than El Salvador.
El Salvador is approximately 21,041 sq km, while Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, making Nicaragua 520% larger than El Salvador. Meanwhile, the population of El Salvador is ~6.6 million people (266,865 fewer people live in Nicaragua).
This to-scale comparison of
El Salvador
vs.
Nicaragua
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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