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El Salvador: cities by population

El Salvador has a population of 6,420,744, with San Salvador as its capital. The 50 largest of its 102 recorded towns and cities, ranked.

Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are GeoNames country data. Sources & method.

#	Place	Region	Population
1	San Salvador	San Salvador Department	525,990
2	Soyapango	San Salvador Department	329,708
3	San Miguel	San Miguel Department	247,126
4	Santa Ana	Santa Ana Department	176,661
5	Mejicanos	San Salvador Department	160,317
6	Santa Tecla	La Libertad Department	124,694
7	Apopa	San Salvador Department	112,158
8	Delgado	San Salvador Department	71,594
9	Sonsonate	Sonsonate Department	59,468
10	San Marcos	San Salvador Department	54,615
11	Usulután	Usulutan	51,910
12	Cojutepeque	Cuscatlan	48,411
13	Cuscatancingo	San Salvador Department	44,369
14	San Vicente	San Vicente Department	41,504
15	Zacatecoluca	La Paz Department	39,613
16	San Martín	Cuscatlan	39,361
17	Ilopango	San Salvador Department	38,890
18	Ahuachapán	Ahuachapan	34,102
19	Antiguo Cuscatlán	La Libertad Department	33,767
20	Chalchuapa	Santa Ana Department	32,282
21	Quezaltepeque	La Libertad Department	28,886
22	La Unión	La Union	26,807
23	Ayutuxtepeque	San Salvador Department	25,426
24	Acajutla	Sonsonate Department	22,763
25	Aguilares	San Salvador Department	21,445
26	Sensuntepeque	Cabanas	20,386
27	Chalatenango	Chalatenango Department	19,364
28	Izalco	Sonsonate Department	19,197
29	Metapán	Santa Ana Department	19,143
30	San Rafael Oriente	San Miguel Department	19,095
31	Puerto El Triunfo	Usulutan	19,074
32	La Libertad	La Libertad Department	16,855
33	San Francisco	Morazan	16,152
34	Sonzacate	Sonsonate Department	15,446
35	Santiago de María	Usulutan	15,032
36	Armenia	Sonsonate Department	14,997
37	Santo Tomás	San Salvador Department	14,581
38	Santa Rosa de Lima	La Union	13,249
39	Turín	Ahuachapan	11,829
40	Zaragoza	La Libertad Department	11,749
41	Berlín	Usulutan	11,313
42	Guazapa	San Salvador Department	10,995
43	Jucuapa	Usulutan	10,601
44	Ciudad Arce	La Libertad Department	10,095
45	Nueva Concepción	Chalatenango Department	9,990
46	Juayúa	Sonsonate Department	9,936
47	Santiago Nonualco	La Paz Department	9,490
48	El Tránsito	San Miguel Department	9,485
49	Atiquizaya	Ahuachapan	9,476
50	San Antonio del Monte	Sonsonate Department	9,135

Twenty years earlier: El Salvador in the 2005 World Gazetteer — population then 6,467,548.