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Sonsonate Department

department of El Salvador
Administrative Area Department Of El Salvador Q212540

Facts

17 properties

Identity

Instance of
department of El Salvador
Inception
June 12, 1824[14]

Location

Country
El Salvador[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 13.721°, -89.727°[15]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
El Salvador[2]
Shares border with
La Libertad Department, Ahuachapán Department, Santa Ana Department[5][6][7]

Population and size

Area
1226.0
Population
438,960, 470,455[16]

Codes

Located in time zone
UTC−06:00[13]
More facts +8
Located in
El Salvador
Part of
Western Zone of El Salvador[12]
Capital
Sonsonate[4]
Contains the administrative territorial entity
Central Sonsonate, Western Sonsonate, Northern Sonsonate, Eastern Sonsonate[8][9][10][11]
Coordinates
🗺️ 13.721°, -89.727°
Geoshape
🗺️ View shape: El Salvador/Sonsonate
Language used
Spanish, Nawat
Replaces
Partido de Santa Ana
🏷️ Also known as
en Sonsonate en Sonsonate Department ar إدارة سونسونات de Departamento Sonsonate el Διαμέρισμα Σονσονάτε es Departamento de Sonsonate fa بخش سونسوناتی hi सोनसोनाते प्रदेश hi सोनसोनाते विभाग hu Sonsonate megye id Departemen Sonsonate it dipartimento di Sonsonate ja ソンソナーテ県 ko 손소나테주 pt Departamento de Sonsonate ro Departamentul Sonsonate ru Сонсонате th จังหวัดซอนโซนาเต tr Sonsonate Departmanı uk Регіон Сонсонате
🔖 Identifiers · 15
GND ID
4422036-4
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Salcoatitán, El Salvador - panoramio (11).jpg ↗
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Sonsonate-department-El-Salvador
FIPS 10-4 (countries and regions)
ES13
Freebase ID
/m/0365br
GNS Unique Feature ID
-1148342
GeoNames ID
3583101
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
7005468
HASC
SV.SO
INaturalist place ID
11920
ISO 3166-2 code
SV-SO
Museum-digital place ID
31599
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OpenStreetMap relation ID
3624092
Topic's main category
Category:Sonsonate Department
Who's on First ID
85677159

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🔗 Connections
Shares border with 3
La Libertad Department, Santa Ana Department, Ahuachapán Department
← Shares border with 3
La Libertad Department, Santa Ana Department, Ahuachapán Department
Contained subdivisions 2
Izalco, Cordillera de Apaneca-Lamatepec
Language used 2
Spanish, Nawat
← Category combines topics 2
Category:Municipalities of the Sonsonate Department, Category:People from Sonsonate Department
Capital 1
Sonsonate
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Sonsonate Department
Country 1
El Salvador
Instance of 1
department of El Salvador
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
El Salvador
Located in time zone 1
UTC−06:00
Topic's main category 1
Category:Sonsonate Department
← Capital of 1
Sonsonate
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Sonsonate Department
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
El Salvador
← FactGrid item ID 1
Rous Lench
← Indigenous to 1
Nawat
← Type locality (biology) 1
Teucholabis (Teucholabis) sackeni
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Summary

Sonsonate Department is a department of El Salvador[1].

Body

Physical Characteristics

Sonsonate Department's area is recorded as 1226 km²[17]. Population counts include {'amount': '+438960'}[16] and {'amount': '+470455'}[18].

Related Entities

El Salvador Sonsonate

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . 2007 Salvadoran census. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . 2024 Salvadoran census. wikidata.org.
  17. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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