Brazil vs Canada

Canada is 1.2 times larger than Brazil — 9,984,670 against 8,515,770 km². Brazil is 5.1 times more populous than Canada — 212,812,405 against 41,651,653 people.

Side by side

Population density

Brazil is 6.0 times more densely populated than Canada — 25 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 Brazilian real and the Canadian dollar.
• Canada spans 6 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
• Different continents — South America and North America.

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.

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.