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title: "Brazil vs Cuba — area, population, currency"
description: "Brazil is 8,515,770 km² with 212,812,405 people; Cuba is 110,860 km² with 10,937,203. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/brazil-vs-cuba/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Brazil vs Cuba

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

8,515,770 km² vs 110,860 km² · 212,812,405 vs 10,937,203

Brazil is 77 times larger than Cuba — 8,515,770 against 110,860 km². Brazil is 19 times more populous than Cuba — 212,812,405 against 10,937,203 people.

## Side by side

|  | Brazil | Cuba |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Brasília | Havana |
| Area | 8,515,770 km² | 110,860 km² |
| Population | 212,812,405 (2025) | 10,937,203 (2025) |
| Density | 25.0 /km² | 98.7 /km² |
| Currency | Brazilian real (BRL) | Cuban peso (CUP) |
| Official languages | Portuguese | Spanish |
| Time zones | UTC-05:00, UTC-04:00, UTC-03:00, UTC-02:00 | UTC-05:00 |
| Calling code | +55 | +53 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | South America | North America |
| ISO codes | BR / BRA | CU / CUB |

## Population density

Cuba is 3.9 times more densely populated than Brazil — 99 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 Cuban peso.
- Brazil spans 4 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.

## Cuba

The largest island in the Caribbean, roughly 1,250 km long but as little as 31 km wide. The Viñales valley in the west is a karst landscape of mogotes — steep limestone humps left standing when the rock around them dissolved. The bee hummingbird, the smallest bird in the world at about 5 cm, lives only 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 Cuba?

Brazil is larger — 8,515,770 km² against 110,860 km².

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

Brazil, with 212,812,405 against 10,937,203.

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

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

## Related pages

- [Brazil](https://atoneplace.net/country/brazil/)
- [Cuba](https://atoneplace.net/country/cuba/)
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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]