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title: "El Salvador — capital, area, population and currency"
description: "El Salvador: capital San Salvador, area 21,041 km², population 6,365,503 (2025), currency United States dollar. Languages, time zones and calling code."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country/el-salvador/
site: "At One Place"
---

# El Salvador

**El Salvador: Capital San Salvador**

21,041 km² · 6,365,503 people (2025) · United States dollar

The smallest country in Central America and the only one with no Caribbean coast. It has more than twenty volcanoes, and Santa Ana is the highest at 2,381 m. The Pacific coast at Punta Roca has one of the longest right-hand point breaks in the Americas.

## The facts

- **Capital:** San Salvador
- **Area:** 21,041 km² — 8,124 sq mi
- **Population:** 6,365,503 (2025)
- **Density:** 302.5 people per km²
- **Currency:** United States dollar (USD, $)
- **Official language:** Spanish
- **Time zone:** UTC-06:00
- **Calling code:** +503
- **Drives on the:** right
- **ISO codes:** SV · SLV
- **Continent:** North America

## How it compares

- **By area:** 151 of 200
- **By population:** 113 of 200

> Population is the only figure on this page that dates — it is a 2025 estimate and will drift. Area, capital, currency, languages, calling code and driving side change rarely or never.

## Countries of a similar size

| Country | Area (km²) | Population |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Belize | 22,966 | 422,924 |
| Israel | 21,937 | 10,122,800 |
| El Salvador ← | 21,041 | 6,365,503 |
| Slovenia | 20,273 | 2,130,986 |
| Fiji | 18,274 | 933,154 |

## Common questions

### What is the capital of El Salvador?

San Salvador

### What currency does El Salvador use?

The United States dollar (USD).

### How big is El Salvador?

21,041 km², or 8,124 square miles — 151 of 200 by area.

### Which side of the road does El Salvador drive on?

The right.

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## Sources

- The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency (https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/) [Public domain (US Government)]
- World Bank Open Data — The World Bank (https://data.worldbank.org/) [CC BY 4.0]