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EL SALVADOR

Capital
San Salvador

Area
21,040 square km, (1 km = 0.62 miles). As the smallest country in continental Latin America, El Salvador is bounded by Guatemala to the north and Honduras to the north and east, a string of volcanoes running east to west, roughly parallel to its Pacific Ocean coastline.

Language
Spanish is the official and predominant language. Indigenous minorities speak Nahuatl and Kekchi.

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24 Feb 2009 11:37:00 GMT
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