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title: "Argentina vs Brazil — area, population, currency"
description: "Argentina is 2,780,400 km² with 45,851,378 people; Brazil is 8,515,770 km² with 212,812,405. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/argentina-vs-brazil/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Argentina vs Brazil

**Argentina vs Brazil: Brazil is larger; Brazil has more people**

2,780,400 km² vs 8,515,770 km² · 45,851,378 vs 212,812,405

Brazil is 3.1 times larger than Argentina — 8,515,770 against 2,780,400 km². Brazil is 4.6 times more populous than Argentina — 212,812,405 against 45,851,378 people.

## Side by side

|  | Argentina | Brazil |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Buenos Aires | Brasília |
| Area | 2,780,400 km² | 8,515,770 km² |
| Population | 45,851,378 (2025) | 212,812,405 (2025) |
| Density | 16.5 /km² | 25.0 /km² |
| Currency | Argentine peso (ARS) | Brazilian real (BRL) |
| Official languages | Spanish | Portuguese |
| Time zones | UTC-03:00 | UTC-05:00, UTC-04:00, UTC-03:00, UTC-02:00 |
| Calling code | +54 | +55 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | South America | South America |
| ISO codes | AR / ARG | BR / BRA |

## Population density

Brazil is 1.5 times more densely populated than Argentina — 25 against 16 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 Argentine peso and the Brazilian real.
- Brazil spans 4 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.

## Argentina

The eighth-largest country in the world and the largest Spanish-speaking one. Aconcagua at 6,961 m is the highest mountain outside Asia; the Laguna del Carbón, about 1,000 km away, is 105 m below sea level and the lowest point in the western hemisphere. Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego is the southernmost city of any size on Earth.

## 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.

## Common questions

### Is Argentina bigger than Brazil?

Brazil is larger — 8,515,770 km² against 2,780,400 km².

### Which has more people, Argentina or Brazil?

Brazil, with 212,812,405 against 45,851,378.

### What is the time difference between Argentina and Brazil?

Argentina is UTC-03:00 and Brazil is UTC-05:00, UTC-04:00, UTC-03:00, UTC-02:00. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

## Related pages

- [Argentina](https://atoneplace.net/country/argentina/)
- [Brazil](https://atoneplace.net/country/brazil/)
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## Sources

- The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency (https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/) [Public domain (US Government)]
- World Bank Open Data — The World Bank (https://data.worldbank.org/) [CC BY 4.0]