Bangladesh vs Canada

Canada is 67 times larger than Bangladesh — 9,984,670 against 148,460 km². Bangladesh is 4.2 times more populous than Canada — 175,686,899 against 41,651,653 people.

Side by side

Population density

Bangladesh is 284 times more densely populated than Canada — 1,183 against 4 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, Canada on the right.
• Different currencies: the Bangladeshi taka and the Canadian dollar.
• Canada spans 6 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
• Different continents — Asia and North 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.

Canada

The second-largest country in the world by total area, and the longest coastline of any — about 202,000 km, more than the rest of the world put together. Canada holds more lake area than every other country combined, and something over two million lakes. Its border with the United States is the longest between any two countries at 8,891 km.

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.