El Salvador Country Info - North America

Description and Basic Information

El Salvador with its capital San Salvador is located in North America (Central America, bordering the North Pacific Ocean). It covers some 21,041 square kilometres (slightly smaller than Massachusetts) with 7,066,000 citizens. Spanish is the language spoken by the majority in El Salvador. It is charing borders with Guatemala and Honduras.

El Salvador is a country in Central America and, geographically, is part of continental North America. El Salvador is gaining a reputation for having some of the best surfing in the world. Tourists from all over Central America are discovering the surfing meccas of La Libertad (near San Salvador), El Sunzal, El Zonte and El Cuco (near San Miguel ), transforming El Salvador into the fastest growing surf tourism hot-spot in Central America. The countryside of El Salvador is breathtaking, with volcanoes and mountains offering green adventurers exactly what they are looking for. Many of environmentally-oriented community-based organizations promote eco-tourism, and there are a number of beautiful and secluded beaches and forests scattered throughout the country.

Pictures from Capital (San Salvador)

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About El Salvador

The terrain offers mostly mountains with narrow coastal belt and central plateau. The average density of population is about 335 per km². The climate in El Salvador can be described as tropical with rainy season (May to October), dry season (November to April), tropical on coast, temperate in uplands. Possible natural disasters include known as the Land of Volcanoes or frequent and sometimes destructive earthquakes and volcanic activity or extremely susceptible to hurricanes.

To reach someone in El Salvador dial +503 prior to a number. There are 1,099,000 installed telephones. And there are 7,566,000 registered mobile phones. The cellular networks operate on frequencies of 850, 900, 1900 Mhz. Websites typically end with the top level domain ".sv". If you want to bring electric appliances (e.g. battery charger), keep in mind the local 115V - 60Hz. The following list are the 14 regions/states in El Salvador we know off.

Demographic Statistics

In the year 2010, the total Salvadoran population grew at a rate of 0.33% (or by 20,093 citizens). With 33,952 deaths and 109,300 babies born, the natural increase rate lies at 1.25%. -55,255 persons more in total emmigrated from the country than immigrated.

An overview of age distribution in El Salvador: Each pair of bars represents a single age group (male/female). Each group is spanning 5 years. E.g. 0 to 5 years, 5 to 10 etc. and group "0 to 5" being at the left end and "100 +" at the right end of the chart.

Based on content from wikitravel.org. The original article can be found here based on the work of these users.
Geographic information is based on the data provided by geonames.org, CIA factsbook and Unesco.