Belgium vs Canada

Canada is 327 times larger than Belgium — 9,984,670 against 30,528 km². Canada is 3.5 times more populous than Belgium — 41,651,653 against 11,941,781 people.

Side by side

Population density

Belgium is 94 times more densely populated than Canada — 391 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

• Different currencies: the Euro and the Canadian dollar.
• Canada spans 6 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
• Different continents — Europe and North 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.

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.