El Salvador
El Salvador (; , meaning " The Saviour"), officially the Republic of El Salvador ( es, República de El Salvador), is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south b ...
is divided into 14 departments (Spanish: ''departamentos'') for administrative purposes, subdivided into 262
municipalities
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
(''municipios''). The country is a
unitary state
A unitary state is a sovereign state governed as a single entity in which the central government is the supreme authority. The central government may create (or abolish) administrative divisions (sub-national units). Such units exercise only th ...
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Departments
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El Salvador
El Salvador (; , meaning " The Saviour"), officially the Republic of El Salvador ( es, República de El Salvador), is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south b ...
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List of cities in El Salvador
This article shows a list of cities in El Salvador.
Cities
Over 100,000 or a High Human Development Index, and a high urbanization.
AMSS = San Salvador Metropolitan Area
* Acajutla - Pop. 47,678
* Apopa - Pop. 217,733 (AMSSIOO)
* Antiguo Cu ...
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Municipalities of El Salvador
The municipalities or municipios of El Salvador correspond to the second level administrative division in the Republic of El Salvador which divide its departments. El Salvador contains 262 municipalities.
The Municipal Code emitted in the Januar ...
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Geography of El Salvador
El Salvador is a country in Central America. Situated at the meeting point of three tectonic plates, it is highly seismologically active and the location of List of earthquakes in El Salvador, numerous earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. The countr ...
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Ranked list of Salvadoran departments The following article is a ranked list of Salvadoran departments.
By area
The following table presents a listing of El Salvador's 14 departments ranked in order of their surface area.
By population
The following table presents a listing of El S ...
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List of Salvadoran departmental capitals The following article is a list of Salvadoran departmental capitals.
List
See also
{{portal, El Salvador
*Departments of El Salvador
*List of cities in El Salvador
*Ranked list of Salvadoran departments The following article is a ranked list of ...
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Salvadoran Departments by HDI
This is a list the fourteen departments of El Salvador by Human Development Index.
Departments
References
{{Subnational entities by Human Development Index
Society of El Salvador
El Salvador
Human Development Index
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Department (country subdivision)
A department (, ) is an administrative or political division in several countries. Departments are the first-level divisions of 11 countries, nine in the Americas and two in Africa. An additional 10 countries use departments as second-level divi ...
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Municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
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ISO 3166-2:SV
References
{{El Salvador topics
Subdivisions of El Salvador
Lists of subdivisions of El Salvador
Departments, El Salvador