San Salvador Department · El Salvador
San Salvador population
525,990people · latest figure
San Salvador has a population of 525,990, making it the largest place we list in El Salvador. It is in San Salvador Department.
San Salvador holds 8.2% of El Salvador's 6,391,253 people. The World Gazetteer published 525,990 for San Salvador in 2005 and GeoNames still carries that same figure, so there is no measured change to report.
The 2005 figure comes from the World Gazetteer archive restored on this site. Why figures differ.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Soyapango | San Salvador Department | 329,708 |
| San Miguel | San Miguel Department | 247,126 |
| Santa Ana | Santa Ana Department | 176,661 |
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 UN World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant) where the UN lists the country separately; the handful it reports under a parent state keep a GeoNames figure and are marked as such. Sources & method.