El Salvador
El Salvador is one of the 193 UN member states, in Central America. UN Tourism counted 2.6 million international arrivals there in 2019, more visited than 56% of the 199 places with figures, so its stamp in Globestamp is printed in Colour-shift.
- International arrivals
- 2.6 millionin 2019, UN Tourism
- Rank by visitors
- 88th of 199most visited first
- Stamp finish
- Colour-shiftrarer than 44%
- Area
- 20,616 km² (7,960 sq mi)
- Population
- 6.5 millionNatural Earth estimate
- Departments
- 14in Globestamp’s regions layer
- Airports
- 2with scheduled flights
- World Heritage Sites
- 1on Globestamp’s list
Does El Salvador count as a country?
Yes. El Salvador is one of the 193 UN member states, so every common list counts it: the UN’s 193, Globestamp’s 250 and the Travelers’ Century Club’s 330.
| List | Counts El Salvador? |
|---|---|
| UN member states (193) | Yes, a member |
| Globestamp’s countries and territories (250) | Yes |
| Travelers’ Century Club (330) | Yes, as El Salvador |
| European Union | No |
| Schengen area | No |
The El Salvador stamp
Every country in Globestamp has its own stamp, drawn after a real entry stamp. Its finish shows how few travelers get there. El Salvador’s is Colour-shift: one colour straight on, another at an angle, the finish for places with 2 to 6 million visitors a year. With 2.6 million international arrivals in 2019, El Salvador is more visited than 56% of the 199 places with figures. See every stamp on the stamp wall, or the rarest on the least-visited countries.
What counts as a visit to El Salvador
The common rule among travelers is that you set foot there: an airport layover usually doesn’t count, and a port where you went ashore does. Globestamp counts El Salvador when one of your photos was taken on its ground, or just off its coast; a photo taken from a plane never counts. Photos only at an airport make a transit stamp in lighter ink, counted only if you count layovers. Read more in how to count the countries you’ve visited.
Places in El Salvador you can collect
Under the country itself, Globestamp keeps layers of places on your globe, and a photo taken at one ticks it. These are the ones it knows in El Salvador, from 1 World Heritage Site to 5 volcanoes.
World Heritage Sites 1
Joya de Cerén (1993). On the bucket list →
Volcanoes 5
Izalco · Santa Ana Volcano · Taburete · Cerro Verde · Laguna Aramuaca. On the bucket list →
Theme parks 1
Sunset Park, La Libertad. On the bucket list →
Botanical gardens 1
La Laguna Botanical Garden. On the bucket list →
Largest cities
| City | People (urban area) |
|---|---|
| San Salvador | 1,433,000 |
| Santa Ana | 234,478 |
| San Miguel | 201,563 |
| Sonsonate | 168,947 |
| Nueva San Salvador | 124,694 |
| Usulután | 51,910 |
Airports
El Salvador has 2 airports with scheduled flights, 1 of them large. Each is a dot on Globestamp’s airports layer, and every flight you log adds to how far you’ve flown (try the flight distance calculator).
14 departments to fill in
Globestamp goes deeper than countries: its regions layer splits El Salvador into 14 departments (Natural Earth’s first-level divisions), and each one fills in when a photo was taken there.
All 14
Ahuachapán · Cabañas · Chalatenango · Cuscatlán · La Libertad · La Paz · La Unión · Morazán · San Miguel · San Salvador · San Vicente · Santa Ana · Sonsonate · Usulután
Questions people ask
Is El Salvador a country?
Yes. El Salvador is one of the 193 UN member states, so every common list counts it: the UN’s 193, Globestamp’s 250 and the Travelers’ Century Club’s 330.
How many tourists visit El Salvador a year?
UN Tourism (via the World Bank) counted 2,639,000 international arrivals in El Salvador in 2019, the 88th most of the 199 places with figures. Countries count arrivals in different ways (some include day-trippers and cruise passengers), so treat it as a rough rank rather than an exact number of tourists.
How rare is a El Salvador stamp in Globestamp?
It is printed in Colour-shift, the finish for places with 2 to 6 million visitors a year, rarer than 44% of the places with figures. The fewer travelers a place receives, the rarer its finish, from plain Ink to Mythic.
Does El Salvador count for the Travelers’ Century Club?
Yes. The Travelers’ Century Club counts it as “El Salvador”, one of its 330 destinations.
Places as rare as El Salvador
Near El Salvador
Sources
- Countries, cities and regions: Natural Earth 10m admin-0 (public domain); lists as of October 2026.
- Visitors: UN Tourism via the World Bank, ST.INT.ARVL (International tourism, number of arrivals), CC BY 4.0, data updated 2026-10-08. Each country's latest year before 2020. Countries count visitors differently; use as a rough rank.
- World Heritage Sites, parks, landmarks and the bucket-list places: Wikidata (CC0), as compiled in the app, October 2026.
- Airports: OurAirports (public domain), airports with scheduled service.
- Travelers’ Century Club: the club’s list of 330 destinations, as of January 2022.