El Salvador
Central America · San Salvador
Everything Mapfold knows about El Salvador, and the 4 answers that pick it out of all 192 countries the game can hide.
El Salvador in figures
- Capital
- San Salvador
- Region
- Central America
- Area
- 21,041 km²
- Population
- 6,365,503
- Density
- 302.5 /km²
- Land neighbours
- 2
- Coast
- Has a coast
- Highest point
- 2,730 m
- Mean temperature
- 25.2 °C
- Life expectancy
- 72.3 years
- GDP per head
- US$ 5,767
- Urban
- 75.5 %
- Forest
- 27.5 %
El Salvador in Mapfold
Every question in the game, and what El Salvador answers to it. This is not a fact about El Salvador so much as a fact about where it sits among the other 191 — which is the only kind of fact a deduction game runs on.
The shortest way to find El Salvador
4 answers are enough to leave El Salvador alone in the daylight, starting from all 192. Taking the largest available cut each time, which is what the game scores you against:
- 1
It is in the Americas.
35 STILL IN DAYLIGHT - 2
Less than 30% of it is forest.
8 STILL IN DAYLIGHT - 3
Life expectancy there is below 75.
2 STILL IN DAYLIGHT - 4
More than 70% of people live in towns and cities.
1 STILL IN DAYLIGHT
What makes El Salvador unusual
It is in the Americas.
35 of 192 countriesIt is denser than 150 people per square kilometre.
56 of 192 countriesMore than 70% of people live in towns and cities.
73 of 192 countries
Every Mapfold question, answered
All 35 questions Mapfold can put to the world, ordered by how much hearing this answer would narrow it.
- REGION
It is in the Americas.
35 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
It is denser than 150 people per square kilometre.
56 of 192 countries - SIZE
It is smaller than Belgium.
57 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
More than 70% of people live in towns and cities.
73 of 192 countries - SIZE
It covers less than 100,000 km².
85 of 192 countries - NATURE
Less than 30% of it is forest.
92 of 192 countries - LOCATION
It lies west of 20°E.
95 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
Fewer than ten million people live there.
97 of 192 countries - CLIMATE
It averages warmer than 22 °C all year.
104 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
Life expectancy there is below 75.
107 of 192 countries - ECONOMY
GDP per head is below $12,000.
114 of 192 countries - NATURE
Its highest point is above 2,000 m.
118 of 192 countries - LOCATION
It runs wider than it is tall.
126 of 192 countries - BORDERS
It borders fewer than five countries.
132 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
More than 50 people live there per square kilometre.
133 of 192 countries - BORDERS
It borders at least two countries.
138 of 192 countries - REGION
It is not in Africa.
138 of 192 countries - SIZE
It covers less than 500,000 km².
141 of 192 countries - CLIMATE
It averages over 12 °C all year.
143 of 192 countries - REGION
It is not in Asia.
146 of 192 countries - REGION
It is not in Europe.
148 of 192 countries - BORDERS
It touches the sea.
149 of 192 countries - LOCATION
It lies in the northern hemisphere.
154 of 192 countries - BORDERS
It has at least one land neighbour.
155 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
More than a million people live there.
156 of 192 countries - LOCATION
Its centre lies south of 45°N.
160 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
Fewer than fifty million people live there.
161 of 192 countries - ECONOMY
GDP per head is below $40,000.
163 of 192 countries - LOCATION
Neither tropic crosses it.
165 of 192 countries - NATURE
Less than 60% of it is forest.
166 of 192 countries - ECONOMY
It does not use the euro.
167 of 192 countries - NATURE
Its highest point is over 500 m.
171 of 192 countries - LOCATION
It spans less than 20° of longitude.
175 of 192 countries - REGION
It is not in Oceania.
179 of 192 countries - LOCATION
The equator does not cross it.
181 of 192 countries
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