Map of El Salvador

El Salvador is located in North America. Its territory lies in the northern and western hemispheres, centred near 13.8° N, 88.9° W. It shares land borders with 2 countries — Guatemala and Honduras — and also has its own coastline. Within North America, a continent of 23 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, El Salvador is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

El Salvador shares land frontiers with the following 2 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

El Salvador covers about 21,041 km² (8,124 sq mi). That makes it the 150th-largest country in the world by area and the 13th-largest in North America, larger by area than 10 of the continent’s 23 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 6,029,976, the 114th-largest in the world and the 10th-largest in North America, accounting for about 1.0% of the continent’s people. With that land area, El Salvador has an average population density of about 287 people per km². Among the 23 countries of North America it stands 10th by population and 13th by area.

The seat of government is San Salvador, and the official currency is the United States dollar (USD, $), and the main official language is Spanish. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC-06:00.

El Salvador carries the ISO country codes SV and SLV, dials on the international calling code +503 and uses the .sv internet domain.

El Salvador shares its land borders with 2 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Guatemala (capital Guatemala City, about 18,079,810 people) and Honduras (capital Tegucigalpa, about 9,892,632 people).

By area, El Salvador is larger than 0 of these neighbours and smaller than 2 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 13.8° N, 88.9° W and opens at zoom level 7, framing El Salvador within North America. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of San Salvador. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

El Salvador lies about 1,535 km from the equator, in the northern and western hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

El Salvador keeps a single standard time zone, UTC-06:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit -06:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the United States dollar (USD, $).

The official language is Spanish, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +503 and websites commonly use the .sv internet domain.

In short, El Salvador is a coastal country in North America, sharing land borders with 2 countries. Its capital is San Salvador. El Salvador has a population of about 6,029,976 and covers around 21,041 km² (8,124 sq mi), ranking it 114th in the world by population and 150th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for El Salvador.

The flag of El Salvador is composed of three equal horizontal bands of cobalt blue, white and cobalt blue, with the national coat of arms centered in the white band.

The flag of El Salvador is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.