Local short name form

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Internet country code

GRC Country Code

   1,234.45

(where . indicates the decimal separator and , the thousands separator)

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About 92% of the population speak the official language, Spanish . There are some 12 000 speakers of Kekchí (also known as Quecchí or Cacché); 37 000 speakers of Lenca in the town of Chilango and 20 speakers of Pipil (or Nahuat).

The abbreviation used for Señorita in El Salvador is Srta.

Each person usually has a given name followed by two family names, that of the father followed by that of the mother, for example:

   Barbara Betancourt Perez

Upon marriage, females may take their husband’s name as a further given name, in this way:

   Barbara Betancourt Perez de Lopez

where the de indicates “(wife) of”. De usually indicates a married female, but may also be part of a name.

Forms of address are usually written followed by the person’s full name.

Professional people are often referred to by their qualification, followed by the given name and paternal family name (and sometimes the maternal family name):

   Doctor (m) / Doctora (f) (Dr/Dra)        Doctor, Ph.D.
   Ingeniero (m) / Ingeniera (f) (Ing.)     Engineer
   Licenciado (m) / Licenciada (f) (Lic.)   Holder of a university degree

This in turn may be preceded by the honorific in this way:

   Señor Doctor OrlandoMorales

   Tables of names can be acquired: given names , surnames/family names , family name prefixes , forms of address , job titles 

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Addresses are written in the following format:

   Recipient name
   {thoroughfare type []}Thoroughfare name[ ]house number
   SETTLEMENT[ ]POSTAL CODE
   DEPARTMENT

For example:

The CP is not required in front of the postal code, but is often used. The postal code may also be found written before the settlement name:

   1702 ILOPANGO 

The word Col. (Colonia, meaning “section”) may be used instead of a thoroughfare type. N^o and # may be used interchangeably.

Calle, the Spanish word for street, is rarely written. The Spanish thoroughfare type, when included, is written before, and separately from, the thoroughfare name. It should be written with the first letter in lower case.

For further information about address components, please refer to the chapter on Spain.

   A table containing information about the relevant position of elements within address blocks can be acquired 

This is written Apartado Postal.

   Note: This section last updated 25th June 2020

The postal code consists of a block of 4 digits (previous to 1997 this was 5 digits), usually preceded by the letters “CP”. The first two digits indicate the department (province) and can be only 11-17, 21-23 or 31-34. The final two digits point to the delivery office.

The postal code is hardly used.

   Metadata containing postal code formatting rules, exceptions and regular expressions can be acquired 

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El Salvador - Postal code format

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El Salvador - Postal code regular expression

El Salvador - Postal code level of coverage

El Salvador - Postal code map

   Note: This section last updated 25th June 2020

El Salvador has 14 departments (departamentos, singular - departamento), which are used in addresses. They are:

Department	Postal code range
Ahuachapán	21
Cabañas	12
Chalatenango	13
Cuscatlán	14
La Libertad	15
La Paz	16
La Unión	31
Morazán	32
San Miguel	33
San Salvador	11
Santa Ana	22
San Vicente	17
Sonsonate	23
Usulután	34

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El Salvadorean telephone numbers have no area codes. Subscriber numbers have 8 digits. Mobile numbers commence with a 6 or 7.