El Salvador is located in the north of Central America. It borders Honduras and Guatemala to the northeast and northwest, the Pacific Ocean to the west, and the Gulf of Fonseca to the southeast. The coastline is 256 km long. With the exception of the narrow plains along the southern coast, the rest are mountainous plateaus. The territory is volcanic and is known as the "Land of Volcanoes".
El Salvador has a land area of 21,040 square kilometers, which is smaller than the Chinese city of Daqing (22,161 square kilometers), and the smallest country in Central America.
El Salvador has the highest population density in Central America with a total population of 6411558 in 2020 and a population density of 307.73 persons per square kilometer (2020).
Of the country's population, 86 per cent are of Mixed Indo-European descent, 13 per cent are of European descent and 1 per cent are Indians. The official language is Spanish, and more than 75% of the population is Catholic.
The capital, San Salvador, is the largest city in the country and an economic and cultural center. It has an area of 72.25 square kilometers, about 10 West Lakes, and a population of 526,000 (2020).
Lake Ilopango, 14 km from the center of San Salvador, has an area of 72 square kilometers, almost as large as the city of San Salvador, and is the largest lake in El Salvador.
The current president of El Salvador, Naibu Buquel, is a "post-80s" president. Born on July 24, 1981 in San Salvador, he is of Palestinian descent. He was elected president in February 2019 and took office on June 1.
On August 21, 2018, El Salvador and Taiwan broke off the so-called "diplomatic relations" and formally established diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China.
The currency of El Salvador is Colón, but the domestic people are rarely useful, most of them use US dollars directly, and many merchants only charge US dollars.
El Salvador was also the first country to recognize Bitcoin as a legal currency. 1 Salvadoran Colon = 0.73186 RMB.
El Salvador, like the vast majority of Central American countries, is inhabited by indigenous people. It became a Spanish colony in 1524. The Central American Protocol of Independence was signed on September 15, 1821. He joined the Central American Confederation in 1823. On 18 February 1841, it broke away from the Central American Confederation and became a republic.
After independence, El Salvador has repeatedly fought wars with its neighbors. From the 1930s onwards, military coups were frequent and the political situation was in turmoil for a long time. Civil war broke out in 1979, and left-wing guerrillas clashed fiercely with the junta until 1989, when democracy was restored. Economic growth is slow.
GDP in 2019 was only: US$26.75 billion, roughly equivalent to the level of China's fifth-tier cities; GDP per capita: US$3941.88.
Due to the limited resources of the country, the long civil war, the economic development is particularly uneven, in order to compete for living space. This has led to rampant gangs and violence in El Salvador. In countries with a population of less than 7 million, the number of people joining the gang is close to hundreds of thousands, and some people even say that for every ten Salvadorans, one is a gang member.
At present, the political situation in El Salvador is relatively stable, but the security situation is not optimistic, and there is a high incidence of theft, robbery and organized crime. According to statistics from the Salvadoran National Police, there were 1,322 homicide deaths in Saska in 2020, with a homicide rate of about 20 per 100,000 people.
There are only 16,800 active military personnel in the Salvadoran army, not as many as gangsters. (Of these, there are about 15,000 in the army, 700 in the navy, and about 1,100 in the air force), 9,900 in the reserve force, and about 12,000 police.
We don't know the combat effectiveness of the Salvadoran army, but one of the most famous things they did was to start a war with their neighbors over football.
El Salvador and Honduras fought a 6-day war in 1969 due to riots during the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico during the North American Qualifiers. The strength of the two sides in the battle reached 54,000 people, and more than 3,000 people were killed and wounded, which was typical of more than worth the loss.