Algeria vs United Kingdom

Algeria is 9.8 times larger than United Kingdom — 2,381,740 against 243,610 km². United Kingdom is 1.5 times more populous than Algeria — 69,487,000 against 47,435,312 people.

Side by side

Population density

United Kingdom is 14 times more densely populated than Algeria — 285 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

• They drive on opposite sides — Algeria on the right, United Kingdom on the left.
• Different currencies: the Algerian dinar and the British pound.
• 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.

United Kingdom

Made up of Great Britain, the north-east of Ireland and around 6,000 smaller islands. No point in the UK is more than about 113 km from the sea. Ben Nevis, the highest point, is 1,345 m, which is modest — but the country has around 31,000 km of coastline once every inlet is counted.

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.