Algeria vs Canada

Canada is 4.2 times larger than Algeria — 9,984,670 against 2,381,740 km². Algeria is 1.1 times more populous than Canada — 47,435,312 against 41,651,653 people.

Side by side

Population density

Algeria is 4.8 times more densely populated than Canada — 20 against 4 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 Canadian dollar.
• Canada spans 6 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
• Different continents — Africa and North 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.

Canada

The second-largest country in the world by total area, and the longest coastline of any — about 202,000 km, more than the rest of the world put together. Canada holds more lake area than every other country combined, and something over two million lakes. Its border with the United States is the longest between any two countries at 8,891 km.

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.