El Salvador
El Salvador (officially Republic of El Salvador) is a country in Central America, with its capital at San Salvador, and is home to roughly 6.3M people.
Spanish is the official language; the currency in circulation is United States dollar ($); people from here are called Salvadoran.
- »It is the smallest country in mainland Central America and the only one without a Caribbean coastline.
- »In 2021 it became the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender.
El Salvador touches two neighbours: Guatemala to the northwest and Honduras to the northeast. Directions run from one centre to the other.
San Salvador sits in a valley beside an active volcano and has been destroyed by earthquakes repeatedly, earning it the nickname 'the valley of the hammocks'.
20,278 km² (7,829 sq mi), 151st largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Slovenia.
Population 6,338,193, 111th of 198 on file. That averages 313 per km² (810 per sq mi).
Blue-white-blue for the two oceans and the land between, a pattern shared with the other former members of the Federal Republic of Central America.
Close enough to Nicaragua's flag to cost you a guess.
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