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El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador, is a sovereign nation in Central America. Situated along the Pacific coast, it is bounded by Guatemala to the northwest and Honduras to the northeast. The country's political, economic, and cultural center is its capital and largest municipality, San Salvador. As of 2024, El Salvador's population was estimated at approximately 6 million inhabitants.
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WHAT PEOPLE ARE CALLED
These are English demonyms for people from El Salvador. A demonym describes a connection to a place; it does not mean everyone shares an ethnicity, language or religion.
Demonym source: mledoze/countries · Download the attributed dataset (ODbL)SAME LAND, DIFFERENT WORLDS
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Southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and parts of Honduras and El Salvador; many separate polities, not one Maya empire. Maya peoples and cultures continue today.
Royal emblems and glyphs identified particular rulers and cities. No single flag represented this entire civilization.
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BEYOND THE MAP
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| San Salvador capital | 525,990 |
| Soyapango | 329,708 |
| San Miguel | 247,126 |
| Santa Ana | 176,661 |
| Mejicanos | 160,317 |
Conflicts this country is attached to. Click one to see the others. Each says what kind of claim it is: a principal belligerent is hand-checked against the modern state that succeeded the power that fought, while a recorded participant comes from the bulk import, which does not separate combat from funding, basing, occupation or reconstruction. Neither list is complete, so a country missing from a war may still have taken part — which is why the quiz no longer asks who fought in what.
tropical; rainy season (May to October); dry season (November to April); tropical on coast; temperate in uplands
Northern hemisphere.
Corrected in an AI-assisted review of the imported data (2026-09-22), not yet checked against a named source: currencies.
