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El Salvador, satellite image. North is at top. Natural colour satellite image showing El Salvador, with the surrounding territories shaded out. El Salvador is the smallest and most densely populated country in Central America. It is bordered by the Pacific Ocean (blue), Guatemala (upper left) and Honduras (upper right). Its easternmost region lies on the coast of the Gulf of Fonseca (blue, bottom right), opposite Nicaragua (not seen). Image compiled from data acquired by the LANDSAT 5 and 7 satellites, in 2000. (KEYSTONE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/PLANETOBSERVER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)