El Salvador: 14 provinces, states and territories
Every administrative level, from the 14 first-level units down to ADM2, on a terrain map with people, density and sources.
El Salvador by province, state and territory
14 first-level units and 272 second-level units inside them, raised by people per km² over the population grid and terrain. Select a unit to drill in or open its page.
Every administrative level of El Salvador
Each level comes from the boundary source admitted for that country and level, with its own licence.
- ADM1
- 14 first-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 · each with its own page
- ADM2
- 272 second-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Public Domain · each with its own page
All 14 first-level units
Two population estimates from open grids, summed inside each boundary. The CSV carries the first two levels; each unit page carries the levels below it.
Boundary licences: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 · Public Domain.
| Unit | Code | People (GHSL) | People (WorldPop) | Area km² | Per km² | Share | Coast ≤ 10 m |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Departamento de Ahuachapán | – | 388,454 | 363,519 | 1,211 | 321 | 6.1% | 14,230 |
| Departamento de Cabañas | – | 151,212 | 141,697 | 1,102 | 137 | 2.4% | 0 |
| Departamento de Chalatenango | – | 209,319 | 168,024 | 2,065 | 101 | 3.3% | 0 |
| Departamento de Cuscatlán | – | 303,152 | 286,866 | 748 | 405 | 4.7% | 0 |
| Departamento de La Paz | – | 364,862 | 359,191 | 1,234 | 296 | 5.7% | 24,234 |
| Departamento de La Unión | – | 215,474 | 217,356 | 2,036 | 106 | 3.4% | 7,804 |
| Departamento de Morazán | – | 190,677 | 203,704 | 1,326 | 144 | 3% | 0 |
| Departamento de San Miguel | – | 479,241 | 480,376 | 2,150 | 223 | 7.5% | 346 |
| Departamento de San Salvador | – | 1,642,879 | 1,652,763 | 904 | 1,817 | 25.7% | 0 |
| Departamento de Santa Ana | – | 585,126 | 545,484 | 2,034 | 288 | 9.2% | 0 |
| Departamento de Sonsonate | – | 515,296 | 498,340 | 1,261 | 409 | 8.1% | 8,001 |
| Departamento de Usulután | – | 348,612 | 330,494 | 2,115 | 165 | 5.5% | 25,095 |
| La Libertad | – | 814,551 | 862,987 | 1,654 | 492 | 12.8% | 3,560 |
| San Vicente | – | 178,779 | 173,257 | 1,205 | 148 | 2.8% | 2,564 |
Subnational risk products
Sources, credits and licences
- ADM1 boundaries
- geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen SLV ADM1, source: Open Street Map, licence: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 (share-alike: this boundary layer is offered under the same licence) · source · represents 2021. Offered under the same licence (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0), kept as its own layer and not merged into other data.
- ADM2 boundaries
- geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen SLV ADM2, source: geoBoundaries, licence: Public Domain · source · represents 2007
- Basemap
- OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
- Terrain
- Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
- People
- GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
- Countries
- Natural Earth (public domain).
- Elevation
- GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
- Position
- Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.
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