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.


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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 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 country consists of 14 regions/states which are listed below.
Joya de Cerén was a pre-Hispanic farming community that, like Pompeii and Herculaneum in Italy, was buried under an eruption of the Laguna Caldera volcano c. AD 600. Because of the...
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The number of people born in El Salvador has declined over the last 10 years by 6.5 births per thousand from 24.6 in 2001 to 18.1 in 2010. Currently, 109,300 children are born each year.
The number of people naturally dying in El Salvador has declined over the last 10 years by 0.3 deaths per thousand from 5.9 in 2001 to 5.6 in 2010. Currently, 33,952 people die each year.
Population, Migration and Growth: The population in El Salvador is growing at an rate of 0.33% (or by 20,093 citizens). Each year 55,255 people leave this country (or 9.10 per thousand citizens) - making it an emmigration country. This leads to an absolute natural increase rate of the population of 1.25%. Or an total increase of 75,348 citizens.
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