Algeria vs Russia

Russia is 7.2 times larger than Algeria — 17,098,242 against 2,381,740 km². Russia is 3.0 times more populous than Algeria — 143,513,328 against 47,435,312 people.

Side by side

Population density

Algeria is 2.4 times more densely populated than Russia — 20 against 8 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 Russian ruble.
• Russia spans 11 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
• 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.

Russia

The largest country in the world by land area, close to twice the size of the next one, and it spans eleven time zones. Lake Baikal in Siberia is the deepest lake on Earth at 1,642 m and holds roughly a fifth of the world's unfrozen fresh water — more than all five North American Great Lakes combined. Russia and China each border fourteen countries, more than any other state.

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.