Algeria vs Italy

Algeria is 7.9 times larger than Italy — 2,381,740 against 301,340 km². Italy is 1.2 times more populous than Algeria — 58,915,656 against 47,435,312 people.

Side by side

Population density

Italy is 9.8 times more densely populated than Algeria — 196 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 Euro.
• Different continents — Africa and Europe.

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.

Italy

Italy has three of Europe's most active volcanoes — Etna, Stromboli and Vesuvius — and Stromboli has been erupting more or less continuously for at least 2,000 years. It has more UNESCO World Heritage sites than any other country. The Alps and Apennines mean about three-quarters of the land is mountain or hill.

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.