Belgium vs Brazil

Brazil is 279 times larger than Belgium — 8,515,770 against 30,528 km². Brazil is 18 times more populous than Belgium — 212,812,405 against 11,941,781 people.

Side by side

Population density

Belgium is 16 times more densely populated than Brazil — 391 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

• Different currencies: the Euro and the Brazilian real.
• Brazil spans 4 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
• Different continents — Europe and South America.

Belgium

One of the most densely populated countries in Europe, and one of the most brightly lit — its motorway lighting was long visible from orbit as a distinct grid. The Signal de Botrange, its highest point, is only 694 m. Antwerp handles the majority of the world's rough diamond trade.

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.