Bangladesh vs Brazil

Brazil is 57 times larger than Bangladesh — 8,515,770 against 148,460 km². Brazil is 1.2 times more populous than Bangladesh — 212,812,405 against 175,686,899 people.

Side by side

Population density

Bangladesh is 47 times more densely populated than Brazil — 1,183 against 25 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 — Bangladesh on the left, Brazil on the right.
• Different currencies: the Bangladeshi taka and the Brazilian real.
• Brazil spans 4 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
• Different continents — Asia and South America.

Bangladesh

One of the most densely populated countries on Earth, with over 1,100 people per km² — roughly the population of Russia in an area the size of Wisconsin. Most of it is the delta of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna, the largest river delta in the world, and much of the land is under two metres above sea level. The Sundarbans mangrove forest on the coast is the largest of its kind.

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.