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title: "Brazil vs Canada — area, population, currency"
description: "Brazil is 8,515,770 km² with 212,812,405 people; Canada is 9,984,670 km² with 41,651,653. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/brazil-vs-canada/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Brazil vs Canada

**Brazil vs Canada: Canada is larger; Brazil has more people**

8,515,770 km² vs 9,984,670 km² · 212,812,405 vs 41,651,653

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

|  | Brazil | Canada |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Brasília | Ottawa |
| Area | 8,515,770 km² | 9,984,670 km² |
| Population | 212,812,405 (2025) | 41,651,653 (2025) |
| Density | 25.0 /km² | 4.2 /km² |
| Currency | Brazilian real (BRL) | Canadian dollar (CAD) |
| Official languages | Portuguese | English, French |
| Time zones | UTC-05:00, UTC-04:00, UTC-03:00, UTC-02:00 | UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00, UTC-04:00, UTC-03:30 |
| Calling code | +55 | +1 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | South America | North America |
| ISO codes | BR / BRA | CA / CAN |

## 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.

## Common questions

### Is Brazil bigger than Canada?

Canada is larger — 9,984,670 km² against 8,515,770 km².

### Which has more people, Brazil or Canada?

Brazil, with 212,812,405 against 41,651,653.

### What is the time difference between Brazil and Canada?

Brazil is UTC-05:00, UTC-04:00, UTC-03:00, UTC-02:00 and Canada is UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00, UTC-04:00, UTC-03:30. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

## Related pages

- [Brazil](https://atoneplace.net/country/brazil/)
- [Canada](https://atoneplace.net/country/canada/)
- [Canada vs United States](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-united-states/)
- [Canada vs India](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-india/)
- [Canada vs China](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-china/)
- [Canada vs United Kingdom](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-united-kingdom/)
- [Canada vs Japan](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-japan/)
- [Canada vs New Zealand](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-new-zealand/)
- [Canada vs France](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-france/)
- [Canada vs Germany](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-germany/)
- [Canada vs Italy](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-italy/)
- [Canada vs Russia](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-russia/)
- [Canada vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-mexico/)
- [Canada vs Spain](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-spain/)

## Sources

- The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency (https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/) [Public domain (US Government)]
- World Bank Open Data — The World Bank (https://data.worldbank.org/) [CC BY 4.0]