Austria vs United Kingdom

United Kingdom is 2.9 times larger than Austria — 243,610 against 83,871 km². United Kingdom is 7.5 times more populous than Austria — 69,487,000 against 9,208,163 people.

Side by side

Population density

United Kingdom is 2.6 times more densely populated than Austria — 285 against 110 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 — Austria on the right, United Kingdom on the left.
• Different currencies: the Euro and the British pound.

Austria

The Alps cover roughly sixty percent of the country and around forty percent of it is forest. The Eisriesenwelt near Werfen is the largest ice cave in the world, with about 42 km of passage. Grossglockner reaches 3,798 m.

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.