# El Salvador

| Republic o El Salvador *República de El Salvador* |
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| **Motto:**"Dios, Unión, Libertad" (Spaingie) Scots: "God, Unity, Freedom" |
| **Anthem:Himno Nacional de El Salvador* Scots: "Naitional Anthem o El Salvador"  |
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| Caipital and largest city | San Salvador ﻿ / ﻿ |
| Offeecial leids | Spaingie |
| Ethnic groups  | * 86.3% Mestizo
* 12.7% White
* 0.23% Indigenous
* 0.13% Black
* 0.64% Ither
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| Demonym(s) | Salvadoran |
| Govrenment | Unitary presidential constitutional republic |
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| • Preses  | Nayib Bukele |
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| Legislatur | Legislative Assembly |
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| • Declared frae Spain | 15 September 1821 |
| • Declared frae the First Mexican Empire | 1 Julie 1823 |
| • Becomes an independent naition  | 18 February 1841 |
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| • Total | 21,041 km2 (8,124 sq mi) (153rd) |
| • Water (%) | 1.5 |
| Population |
| • 2024 census | 6,029,976 (109t) |
| • Density | 324.4/km2 (840.2/sq mi) (26t) |
| GDP (PPP) | 2025 estimate |
| • Total |  $88.323 billion (107t) |
| • Per capita |  $13,753 (114t) |
| GDP (nominal) | 2025 estimate |
| • Tot |  $37.843 billion (104t) |
| • Per capita |  $5,893 (108t) |
| Gini (2022) | 38.8 medium |
| HDI (2022) |  0.674 medium · 127t |
| Currency | Unitit States dollara (USD) |
| Time zone | UTC−6 (CST) |
| Drivin side | richt |
| Cawin code | +503b |
| ISO 3166 code | SV |
| Internet TLD | .sv |
| 1. The Unitit States dollar is the siller in uise. Financial information can be expressed in U.S. dollars an in Salvadoran colón, but the colón is oot o circulation.
2. Telephone companies (market share): Tigo (45%), Claro (25%), Movistar (24%), Digicel (5.5%), Reid (0.5%).
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Territorial organization
**El Salvador** (Spaingie: *República de El Salvador*, leeteral meanin "Republic o the Savior"), offeecially the **Republic o El Salvador**, is the smawest an the maist dense populatit kintra in Central Americae an aw. It borders the Pacific Ocean atween Guatemala an Honduras. It lees on the Gulf o Fonseca, as dae Honduras an Nicaragua forder sooth.

El Salvador wis for centuries inhabitit bi several Mesoamerican naitions, espeicial the Cuzcatlecs, as weel as the Lenca an Maya. In the early 16t yeirhunner, the Spaingie Empire conquered the territory, incorporatin it intae the Viceryalty o New Spain ruled frae Mexico Ceety. Houaniver the Viceryalty o Mexico haed little or nae influence in the daily affairs o the Central American isthmus, that wad be colonised in 1524. In 1609 the area becam the Caiptaincy General o Guatemala, frae that El Salvador wis pairt o till its unthirldom frae Spain, that teuk place in 1821, as pairt o the First Mexican Empire, then forder secedit, as pairt o the Federal Republic o Central Americae, in 1823. Whan the Republic dissolved in 1841, El Salvador becam a sovereign naition, then formit a short-leeved union wi Honduras an Nicaragua cried the Greater Republic o Central Americae, that lastit frae 1895 tae 1898.

Frae the late 19t tae the mid-20t yeirhunner, El Salvador endured chronic poleetical an economic instability chairacterised bi coups, revolts, an a succession o authoritarian rulers. Persistent socioeconomic inequality an ceevil unrest culminatit in the devastatin Salvadoran Ceevil War (1979–1992), that wis focht atween the militar-led govrenment an a coaleetion o left-weeng guerrilla groups. The conflict endit wi the Chapultepec Peace Accords. This negotiatit settlement established a multipairty constitutional republic, that remeens in place tae this day.

El Salvador's economy haes historically been dominatit bi agricultur, beginnin wi the indigo plant (*añil* in Spaingie), the maist important crap in the colonial period, an follaed thareefter bi coffee, that bi the early 20t yeirhunner accoontit for 90 percent o export earnins. El Salvador haes sin reduced its dependence on coffee an embaurked on diversifyin the economy bi appenin up tred an financial airtins an expandin the manufacturin sector. The colón, the offeecial siller o El Salvador syne 1892, wis replaced bi the U.S. dollar in 2001.

As o 2010, El Salvador ranks 12t amang Laitin American kintras in terms o the Human Development Index an fowerth in Central Americae (ahint Panama, Costa Rica, an Belize) due in pairt tae ongangin rapid industrialisation. Houiver, the kintra conteenas tae struggle wi heich rates o poverty, inequality, an crime.