El Salvador

The country calling code for El Salvador is +503. Country calling codes identify the destination country when placing an international call. The international access prefix used to leave your originating country varies by telephone network. On mobile phones, the + symbol is generally used instead. After the country code, dial the local El Salvador number, dropping any leading zero used for domestic dialling.

El Salvador is assigned SV as its ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code and SLV as its alpha-3 code. Alpha-2 codes are the two-letter codes used in web addresses, currency pairs and shipping forms. Alpha-3 codes are the three-letter codes used in banking, aviation and international standards work. The internet country code top-level domain for El Salvador is .sv. ISO country codes are standardized identifiers, but they can change when countries or territories undergo changes in international status or classification.

The official currency of El Salvador is the United States dollar, with the ISO 4217 code USD and the symbol $. Prices, salaries and official accounts inside El Salvador are quoted in USD. Exchange rates move daily, so check a live rate before converting rather than relying on a figure you saw last week.

The primary time zone for El Salvador is -06:00, currently UTC-06:00. The clock reads from your own device, so it follows daylight saving rather than showing a fixed offset.

The capital of El Salvador is San Salvador. El Salvador sits in Americas, specifically the Central America subregion. Its approximate centre point is 13.83333333, -88.91666666. Traffic in El Salvador drives on the right. Languages recorded for El Salvador: Spanish.

El Salvador shares a land border with 2 countries: Guatemala and Honduras. Land borders are not the same as nearest countries: a country across a narrow strait can be closer than one you share a fence with. The nearby page ranks countries by straight-line distance instead.