San Salvador

El Salvador

San Salvador is the capital and largest city of El Salvador and of its eponymous department. It is the country's largest agglomeration, serving as the country's political, cultural, educational and financial center. The municipality of San Salvador has 525,990 inhabitants. The Metropolitan Area of San Salvador, which comprises the capital itself and 13 of its municipalities, has a population of 2,404,097.

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Country: El Salvador
Population: 1,433,000
Latitude: 13.71° N
Longitude: 89.21° O

Which way is San Salvador from…

From Paris, San Salvador lies at 280° to the west, 8,976 km as the crow flies.

Paris	280° west	8,976 km
London	278° west	8,755 km
New York	211° south-west	3,346 km
Madrid	278° west	8,649 km
Rome	288° west	9,933 km
Montreal	208° south-west	3,829 km
Saint-Denis, Réunion	264° west	16,187 km

Bearings as the crow flies (great circle), measured from north. From somewhere else, the bearing changes: that’s the whole game.

Oùcécap’s take

Same latitude as Bangkok, but on the other side of the globe: that is San Salvador. From London, ignore the flat map that puts it south-west, at 242°; the compass aims at 278°, west, 8,755 km away. From Rome the shift is about the same. To place it in Central America, remember that Guatemala City is only 175 km to the north-west.