Algeria vs Brazil

Brazil is 3.6 times larger than Algeria — 8,515,770 against 2,381,740 km². Brazil is 4.5 times more populous than Algeria — 212,812,405 against 47,435,312 people.

Side by side

Population density

Brazil is 1.3 times more densely populated than Algeria — 25 against 20 people per km². Density is where area and population interact, and it often reverses the impression the headline figures give — a large country with a small population can feel emptier than a small crowded one by an enormous margin.

Practical differences

• Different currencies: the Algerian dinar and the Brazilian real.
• Brazil spans 4 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
• Different continents — Africa and South America.

Algeria

The largest country in Africa, and the tenth largest in the world. About four-fifths of it is Sahara, so nearly the whole population lives on the Mediterranean strip in the north. The Hoggar mountains in the deep south rise above 2,900 m and get frost.

Brazil

The fifth-largest country in the world and the largest in the southern hemisphere. It holds about sixty percent of the Amazon rainforest, and the Amazon River discharges roughly a fifth of all the fresh water that reaches the world's oceans — more than the next seven rivers combined. Brazil borders every South American country except Chile and Ecuador.

Neutral facts only. Nothing here addresses politics, government, economics or which country is preferable in any respect — population is the one figure that dates, and it carries its year.