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El Salvador has many natural riches, such as beautiful and secluded beaches on the Pacific coast of , majestic forests in the mountains and striking volcanoes.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include San Salvador and Santa Ana.

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is the capital city of El Salvador, approximately in the center of the country in a valley near the base of the volcano. It provides a good base for exploring the rest of the country as it's a transportation hub, with most major roads running through it due to its central location.

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is the second largest city of El Salvador and a very important one in terms of agriculture and coffee production. Its historic center offers some of the best preserved architecture in El Salvador, including the Cathedral of , a marvel…

is the third largest city in El Salvador and center of agriculture and production. It is less cosmopolitan than the capital in the West but the surrounding areas of are very beautiful with many beaches around the city.

Destinations to Discover

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is a region of the country that is mostly rural, with colonial mountain villages, coffee plantations, and towering volcanoes.

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is a region of El Salvador.

El Salvador

Latitude of center
13.71° or 13° 42′ 36″ north
Longitude of center
-88.8464° or 88° 50′ 47″ west
Population
6,000,000
Area
21,040 km² (8,124 miles²)
Elevation
694 metres (2,277 feet)
Capital
Currency
Dollar (USD)
Phone code
.sv
Internet domain
503
Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
3585968
Wiki­data ID
Q792
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“El Salvador” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Èl Salvador”
  • Adyghe: “Салвадор”
  • Afrikaans: “El Salvador”
  • Afrikaans: “Salvador”
  • Akan: “Ɛl Salvadɔ”
  • Albanian: “Salvador”
  • Albanian: “Salvadori”
  • Amharic: “ኤል ሳልቫዶር”
  • Amis: “El salvador”
  • Angika: “एल सेल्वडॉर”
  • Arabic: “إلسلفادور”
  • Arabic: “السلفادور”
  • Arabic: “جمهورية السلفادور”
  • Aragonese: “El Salvador”
  • Armenian: “Սալվադոր”
  • Arpitan: “Salvador”
  • Assamese: “এল ছেলভেড’ৰ”
  • Asturian: “El Salvador”
  • Aymara: “El Salvador”
  • Azerbaijani: “El-Salvador”
  • Azerbaijani: “Salvador”
  • Balinese: “Él Salvador”
  • Bambara: “El Salvador”
  • Bambara: “Salivadɔr”
  • Bashkir: “Сальвадор”
  • Basque: “El Salvador”
  • Batak Toba: “El Salvador”
  • Bavarian: “El Salvador”
  • Belarusian: “Сальвадор”
  • Belarusian: “Эль-Сальвадор”
  • Bengali: “এল সালভাদোর প্রজাতন্ত্র”
  • Bengali: “এল সালভাদোর”
  • Bengali: “রেপুব্লিকা দে এল সালভাদোর্‌”
  • Bengali: “সালভাদোর”
  • Bengali: “সালভেডর”
  • Betawi: “Salbador”
  • Bhojpuri: “एल सल्वाडोर”
  • Bishnupriya: “এল সালভাদর”
  • Bislama: “El Salvado”
  • Bosnian: “El Salvador”
  • Bosnian: “Salvador”
  • Breton: “El Salvador”
  • Breton: “Salvador”
  • Bulgarian: “Салвадор”
  • Burmese: “အယ်ဆာဗေဒိုနိုင်ငံ”
  • Burmese: “အယ်လ်ဆာဗေးဒိုး”
  • Catalan: “El Salvador”
  • Catalan: “SLV”
  • Catalan: “SV”
  • Cebuano: “El Salvador”
  • Cebuano: “Elsalbador”
  • Central Bikol: “El Salvador”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئێلسالڤادۆر”
  • Chavacano: “El Salvador”
  • Chechen: “Сальвадор”
  • Cheyenne: “El Salvador”
  • Chinese: “El Salvador”
  • Chinese: “萨尔瓦多 / 薩爾瓦多”
  • Chinese: “萨尔瓦多”
  • Chinese: “薩爾瓦多”
  • Cornish: “El Salvador”
  • Crimean Tatar: “El Salvador”
  • Croatian: “El Salvador”
  • Croatian: “Salvador”
  • Czech: “El Salvador”
  • Czech: “Salvador”
  • Czech: “Salvádor”
  • Dagbani: “El Salvador”
  • Danish: “El Salvador”
  • Dhivehi: “އެލްސެލްވަޑޯރު”
  • Dimli (individual language): “El Salvador”
  • Dotyali: “एल साल्भादोर”
  • Dutch: “El Salvador”
  • Dutch: “Republiek El Salvador”
  • Dutch: “Salvador”
  • Dutch: “SLV”
  • Dutch: “SV”
  • Dzongkha: “ཨེལ་སལ་བ་ཌོར”
  • Eastern Mari: “Сальвадор”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “السالفادور”
  • Erzya: “Сальвадор”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Salvadoro”
  • Esperanto: “Salvadoro”
  • Esperanto: “SV”
  • Estonian: “El Salvador”
  • Ewe: “El Salvador”
  • Ewe: “El Salvadɔ nutome”
  • Extremaduran: “El Salvaol”
  • Faroese: “El Salvador”
  • Fiji Hindi: “El Salvador”
  • Finnish: “El Salvador”
  • Finnish: “El Salvadorin tasavalta”
  • French: “El Salvador”
  • French: “la République du Salvador”
  • French: “Salvador”
  • French: “SV”
  • Fulah: “El Salwador”
  • Gagauz: “El Salvador”
  • Galician: “El Salvador”
  • Galician: “O Salvador”
  • Ganda: “El salivado”
  • Georgian: “სალვადორი”
  • German: “El Salvador”
  • German: “Republik El Salvador”
  • German: “sv”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “El Salvador”
  • Gilaki: “ال‌سالوادؤر”
  • Goan Konkani: “El Salvador”
  • Goan Konkani: “अल साल्वाडोर”
  • Greek: “Ελ Σαλβαδόρ”
  • Guarani: “El Salvador”
  • Guarani: “Salvador”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Salvador”
  • Gujarati: “અલ સાલ્વાડોર”
  • Gujarati: “એલ સેલ્વાડોર”
  • Haitian: “Salvadò”
  • Hakka Chinese: “El Salvador”
  • Hausa: “El Salbador”
  • Hausa: “Salvador”
  • Hebrew: “אל סלבדור”
  • Hebrew: “אל סלוואדור”
  • Hebrew: “אל סלוודור”
  • Hindi: “अल सल्वाडोर”
  • Hindi: “अल साल्वाडोर”
  • Hindi: “एल-साल्वाडोर”
  • Hungarian: “El Salvador”
  • Hungarian: “Salvador”
  • Hungarian: “Salvadori Köztársaság”
  • Icelandic: “El Salvador”
  • Ido: “Salvador”
  • Ido: “Salvadoria”
  • Igbo: “El Salvador”
  • Iloko: “El Salvador”
  • Inari Sami: “El Salvador täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “El Salvador”
  • Indonesian: “El Salvador”
  • Interlingua: “El Salvador”
  • Interlingue: “El Salvador”
  • Inupiaq: “Annaurri (nuna)”
  • Inupiaq: “Annaurri”
  • Irish: “an tSalvadóir”
  • Irish: “An tSalvadóir”
  • Italian: “El Salvador”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “El Salvaduor”
  • Japanese: “エルサルバドル”
  • Japanese: “エルサルバドル共和国”
  • Javanese: “Èl Salvador”
  • Kabardian: “Салвадор”
  • Kabiyè: “Salɩvaadɔɔrɩ”
  • Kabyle: “Salvador”
  • Kalaallisut: “El Salvador”
  • Kalmyk: “Салвадормудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಎಲ್ ಸಾಲ್ವಡಾರ್”
  • Kannada: “ಎಲ್ ಸಾಲ್ವೇಡಾರ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “El Salvador”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Salvador”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Салвадор”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Сальвадор”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Эль Сальвадор Республика”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Эль Сальвадор”
  • Kashmiri: “اؠل سَلواڑور”
  • Kashubian: “Salwadór”
  • Kazakh: “Сальвадор”
  • Kazakh: “Эль-Сальвадор Республикасы”
  • Khmer: “អែលសាល់វ៉ាឌ័រ”
  • Kikuyu: “Elsavado”
  • Kinaray-A: “Ang Salbador”
  • Kinaray-A: “Salbador”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Saluvadoro”
  • Kirghiz: “Сальвадор”
  • Kirghiz: “Эль-Сальвадор”
  • Komi: “Сальвадор”
  • Korean: “엘 쌀바도르”
  • Korean: “엘살바도르”
  • Kotava: “Salvadora”
  • Kurdish: “El Salvador”
  • Kurdish: “ئێلسالڤادۆر”
  • Ladin: “El Salvador”
  • Ladino: “El Salvador”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດແອນຊານວາດໍ”
  • Lao: “ເອວ ຊໍວາດໍ”
  • Latin: “Salvatoria”
  • Latvian: “Salvadora”
  • Ligurian: “El Salvador”
  • Limburgan: “El Salvador”
  • Lingala: “El Salvador”
  • Lingala: “Savadɔrɛ”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Salvador”
  • Literary Chinese: “薩爾瓦多”
  • Lithuanian: “Salvadoras”
  • Livvi: “Sal’vador”
  • Lojban: “salbador”
  • Lombard: “El Salvador”
  • Low German: “El Salvador”
  • Low German: “Republiek El Salvador”
  • Lower Sorbian: “El Salvador”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Savadore”
  • Lule Sami: “El Salvadåvrrå”
  • Luxembourgish: “El Salvador”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “El Salvador”
  • Macedonian: “Ел Салвадор”
  • Madurese: “El Salvador”
  • Malagasy: “El Salvador”
  • Malagasy: “Salvador”
  • Malagasy: “Salvadôro”
  • Malay: “El Salvador”
  • Malay: “ايل سلۏادور”
  • Malayalam: “എൽ സാൽവദോർ”
  • Maltese: “El Salvador”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika ta’ El Salvador”
  • Manipuri: “ꯏꯜ ꯁꯥꯜꯚꯥꯗꯣꯔ”
  • Manipuri: “ꯑꯦꯜ ꯁꯜꯚꯥꯗꯣꯔ”
  • Manx: “Talvador”
  • Manx: “y Salvador”
  • Manx: “Yn Salvador”
  • Maori: “Te Whakaora”
  • Marathi: “अल साल्वाडोर”
  • Marathi: “एल साल्वादोर”
  • Marathi: “एल साल्व्हाडोर”
  • Mazanderani: “السالوادؤر”
  • Mazanderani: “السالوادور”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “El Salvador”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “El Salvador Kiōng-hô-kok”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “El Salvador”
  • Minangkabau: “El Salvador”
  • Mingrelian: “სალვადორი”
  • Mirandese: “L Salbador”
  • Moksha: “Сальвадор”
  • Mongolian: “Сальвадор”
  • Mongolian: “Эль Сальвадор”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “الصالڤادور”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “صالڤادور”
  • Nauru: “Ersarbador”
  • Neapolitan: “El Salvador”
  • Nepali: “एल साल्भादोर”
  • Nepali: “एल् साल्भाडोर”
  • Newari: “एल साल्भादोर”
  • North Ndebele: “El Salvador”
  • Northern Frisian: “El Salwadoor”
  • Northern Luri: “السالوادور”
  • Northern Sami: “El Salvador dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “El Salvador”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “El Salvador”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken El Salvador”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “El Salvador”
  • Norwegian: “El Salvador”
  • Novial: “El Salvador”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “El Salvador”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lo Salvador”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Hǣlendlond”
  • Oriya: “ଏଲ ସାଲଭାଡୋର”
  • Oriya: “ଏଲ୍ ସାଲଭାଡୋର୍”
  • Oromo: “El Salvaador”
  • Ossetian: “Сальвадор”
  • Pali: “एल-साल्वाडोर”
  • Pampanga: “El Salvador”
  • Pampanga: “Salbador”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਲ ਸਲਵਾਡੋਰ”
  • Panjabi: “ਏਲ ਸਾਲਵਾਡੋਰ”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਾਲਵਾਦੋਰ”
  • Papiamento: “El Salvador”
  • Persian: “السالوادور”
  • Picard: “Salvador”
  • Piemontese: “El Salvador”
  • Piemontese: “Ël Salvador”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “El Salvador”
  • Polish: “Salwador”
  • Portuguese: “El Salvador”
  • Portuguese: “República de El Salvador”
  • Pushto: “اېلسلوادور”
  • Pushto: “سالوېډور”
  • Quechua: “El Salvador”
  • Quechua: “Salwadur”
  • Quechua: “Salwathur”
  • Romanian: “El Salvador”
  • Romansh: “El Salvador”
  • Rundi: “Eli Saluvatori”
  • Russia Buriat: “Сальвадор”
  • Russian: “Республика Эль-Сальвадор”
  • Russian: “Сальвадор”
  • Russian: “Эль-Сальвадор”
  • Rusyn: “Салвадор”
  • Sakizaya: “El salvador”
  • Sakizaya: “El Salvador”
  • Samoan: “El Salvador”
  • Samogitian: “Salvaduors”
  • Sango: “Salvadöro”
  • Sanskrit: “एल-साल्वाडोर”
  • Sardinian: “El Salvador”
  • Sardinian: “El Salvadòr”
  • Scots: “El Salvador”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “An Salbhador”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “El Salbhador”
  • Serbian: “Salvador”
  • Serbian: “Ел Салвадор”
  • Serbian: “Салвадор”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Salvador”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းဢႄႇသႃႇဝႃႇတေႃႇ”
  • Shona: “El Salvador”
  • Sicilian: “El Salvador”
  • Silesian: “Salwadůr”
  • Sindhi: “ال سلواڊور”
  • Sindhi: “ايل سيلويڊور”
  • Sinhala: “එල් සැල්ව‍ඩෝ”
  • Sinhala: “එල් සැල්වදෝරය”
  • Skolt Sami: “El Salvadoor tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “El Salvador”
  • Slovak: “Salvador”
  • Slovak: “Salvádor”
  • Slovak: “Salvádorská republika”
  • Slovenian: “Salvador”
  • Somali: “El Salfadoor”
  • Somali: “El Salfador”
  • South Azerbaijani: “السالوادور”
  • Spanish: “El Salvador”
  • Spanish: “República de El Salvador”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵙⴰⵍⴼⴰⴷⵓⵔ”
  • Sundanese: “Él Salvador”
  • Swahili: “El Salvador”
  • Swahili: “Elsavado”
  • Swati: “ISalivado”
  • Swedish: “El Salvador”
  • Swedish: “Republiken El Salvador”
  • Swiss German: “El Salvador”
  • Tachelhit: “Salfaḍuṛ”
  • Tagalog: “El Salvador”
  • Tajik: “Салвадор”
  • Tajik: “Эл-Салвадор”
  • Talysh: “Salvador”
  • Tamil: “எல் சால்வடார்”
  • Tamil: “எல் சால்வடோர்”
  • Taroko: “El Salvador”
  • Tatar: “Сальвадор”
  • Telugu: “ఎల్ సాల్వడార్”
  • Telugu: “ఎల్ సాల్వడోర్”
  • Tetum: “Salvadór”
  • Thai: “ประเทศเอลซัลวาดอร์”
  • Thai: “สาธารณรัฐเอลซัลวาดอร์”
  • Thai: “เอลซัลวาดอร์”
  • Tibetan: “ཨིལ་སལ་ཝ་ཌོར།”
  • Tibetan: “ཨེལ། སཱལ་ཝ་ཌོར།”
  • Tigrinya: “ኤል ሳልቫዶር”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “ʻEle Salavatoa”
  • Tosk Albanian: “El Salvador”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “السلڥادور”
  • Turkish: “El Salvador”
  • Turkmen: “Salwador”
  • Udmurt: “Сальвадор”
  • Uighur: “ئەل سالۋادور”
  • Uighur: “سالۋادور”
  • Ukrainian: “Сальвадор”
  • Upper Sorbian: “El Salvador”
  • Urdu: “ال سلواڈور”
  • Urdu: “ایل سیلواڈور”
  • Uzbek: “El Salvador”
  • Uzbek: “Salvador”
  • Venetian: “El Salvador”
  • Veps: “Sal’vador”
  • Vietnamese: “El Salvador”
  • Vietnamese: “En-san-va-đo”
  • Vlax Romani: “El Salvador”
  • Volapük: “Salvadorän”
  • Võro: “El Salvador”
  • Waray (Philippines): “El Salvador”
  • Welsh: “El Salfador”
  • Welsh: “El Salvador”
  • Western Frisian: “El Salvador”
  • Western Mari: “Сальвадор”
  • Western Panjabi: “ال سالواڈور”
  • Wolof: “El Salwadoor”
  • Wolof: “Salbadoor”
  • Wu Chinese: “薩爾瓦多”
  • Yakut: “Эл Салвадор”
  • Yiddish: “על סאלוואדאר”
  • Yiddish: “על סאַלוואַדאר”
  • Yoruba: “Ẹẹsáfádò”
  • Yoruba: “El Salfador”
  • Yue Chinese: “薩爾瓦多”
  • Zeeuws: “El Salvador”
  • Zhuang: “El Salvador”
  • Zulu: “El Salvador”
  • Zulu: “i-El Salvador”
  • “El Salvador”
  • “Koskatlan”
  • “Koskatlan Axkayotl”
  • “ma Esawato”
  • “Salvaduors”
  • “SLV”
  • “SV”
  • “एल सल्वाडोर”

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