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title: "Brazil vs Chile — area, population, currency"
description: "Brazil is 8,515,770 km² with 212,812,405 people; Chile is 756,102 km² with 19,859,921. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/brazil-vs-chile/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Brazil vs Chile

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

8,515,770 km² vs 756,102 km² · 212,812,405 vs 19,859,921

Brazil is 11 times larger than Chile — 8,515,770 against 756,102 km². Brazil is 11 times more populous than Chile — 212,812,405 against 19,859,921 people.

## Side by side

|  | Brazil | Chile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Brasília | Santiago |
| Area | 8,515,770 km² | 756,102 km² |
| Population | 212,812,405 (2025) | 19,859,921 (2025) |
| Density | 25.0 /km² | 26.3 /km² |
| Currency | Brazilian real (BRL) | Chilean peso (CLP) |
| Official languages | Portuguese | Spanish |
| Time zones | UTC-05:00, UTC-04:00, UTC-03:00, UTC-02:00 | UTC-06:00, UTC-04:00, UTC-03:00 |
| Calling code | +55 | +56 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | South America | South America |
| ISO codes | BR / BRA | CL / CHL |

## Population density

Chile is slightly more densely populated, by 5.1% — 26 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 Brazilian real and the Chilean peso.
- Brazil spans 4 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.

## 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.

## Chile

About 4,300 km from north to south and averaging only around 177 km wide — one of the most elongated countries on Earth. The Atacama in the north is the driest non-polar desert in the world, and some weather stations there have never recorded rain. That dryness and altitude is why most of the world's large optical telescopes are built here.

> 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 Chile?

Brazil is larger — 8,515,770 km² against 756,102 km².

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

Brazil, with 212,812,405 against 19,859,921.

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

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

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- [Chile](https://atoneplace.net/country/chile/)
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## 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]