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El Salvador, [a] officially the Republic of El Salvador, [b] is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south by the Pacific Ocean. El Salvador's capital and largest city is San Salvador. The country's population in 2024 was estimated to be 6 million according to a ...
The initially poorly trained Armed Forces of El Salvador (ESAF) engaged in repression and indiscriminate killings, the most notorious of which was the El Mozote massacre in December 1981. The United States supported the government, while Cuba and other Communist states supported the insurgents—now organized as the Farabundo Martí National ...
Republic of El Salvador (official, English), República de El Salvador ... Lechia (historic and poetic original name, Latin, Polish, and English) ...
El Salvador has a total of 545 km of boundaries, of which 203 km are in the border with Guatemala, and 342 km are in the border with Honduras. The coastline is 307 km long. El Salvador claims a territorial sea of 12 nm, a contiguous zone of 24 nm and an exclusive economic zone of 200 nm for the commercial exploitation of marine life.
Common English country name: El Salvador; Official English country name: The Republic of El Salvador; Common endonym(s): Official endonym(s): Adjectival(s): Salvadoran; Demonym(s): Etymology: In the early sixteenth century, Spanish conquistadors named this region "Provincia de San Salvador" ("Province of San Salvador"), which in 1824 was ...
El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador, is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras , on the northwest by Guatemala , and on the south by the Pacific Ocean .
The five volcanoes are modeled after the Cordillera de Apaneca and symbolize the fellowship of the five original isthmian member states of the United Provinces of Central America—Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador. The volcanoes are all illuminated yellow on their right sides by sunshine.
San Salvador (Spanish pronunciation: [san salβaˈðoɾ];) is the capital and the largest city [5] of El Salvador and its eponymous department. [6] It is the country's largest agglomeration, serving as the country's political, cultural, educational and financial center. [7]