1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
El Salvador
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for San Salvador—525,990, America/El_Salvador, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: capital of El Salvador.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind San Salvador is GeoNames ID 3583361. Its recorded administrative path is San Salvador Department → El Salvador, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. San Salvador occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2019-09-05; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, San Salvador ranks 1,075 by recorded population. Inside the 1 selected El Salvador entries it ranks 1; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 175. Its 525,990 population value is 1.00 times the 525,990 median for the country cohort and 0.64 times the 816,326 regional median. San Salvador is rank 1 among the 1 selected El Salvador entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. San Salvador's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
San Salvador's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Villa Nueva at 177.127 km with 618,397 recorded people; Guatemala City at 177.851 km with 994,938 recorded people; Tegucigalpa at 218.18 km with 850,848 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 41.053 km. Compared with Villa Nueva, San Salvador's recorded population is 0.85 times as large. Against San Salvador, Villa Nueva follows Municipio de Villa Nueva → Guatemala in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Guatemala cohort rather than El Salvador, uses America/Guatemala instead of America/El_Salvador, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is above San Salvador's. Against San Salvador, Guatemala City follows Municipio de Guatemala → Guatemala in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Guatemala cohort rather than El Salvador, uses America/Guatemala instead of America/El_Salvador, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is above San Salvador's. Against San Salvador, Tegucigalpa follows Distrito Central → Francisco Morazan Department → Honduras in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Honduras cohort rather than El Salvador, uses America/Tegucigalpa instead of America/El_Salvador, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is above San Salvador's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 949 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. San Salvador's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 3583361, the coordinate pair 13.6894 / 89.1872, country rank 1 of 1, and neighbor GeoNames 3587902 at 177.127 km bind San Salvador to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
San Salvador's reference point is 13.6894° north and 89.1872° west. The IANA identifier America/El_Salvador is shared by 1 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. San Salvador's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. San Salvador's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. San Salvador's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for San Salvador, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
San Salvador's closest other entries in this atlas are Villa Nueva (177.127 km), Guatemala City (177.851 km), Tegucigalpa (218.18 km).
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GeoNames updated the row 2019-09-05; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.