---
title: "Brazil vs Ecuador — area, population, currency"
description: "Brazil is 8,515,770 km² with 212,812,405 people; Ecuador is 283,561 km² with 18,289,896. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/brazil-vs-ecuador/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Brazil vs Ecuador

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

8,515,770 km² vs 283,561 km² · 212,812,405 vs 18,289,896

Brazil is 30 times larger than Ecuador — 8,515,770 against 283,561 km². Brazil is 12 times more populous than Ecuador — 212,812,405 against 18,289,896 people.

## Side by side

|  | Brazil | Ecuador |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Brasília | Quito |
| Area | 8,515,770 km² | 283,561 km² |
| Population | 212,812,405 (2025) | 18,289,896 (2025) |
| Density | 25.0 /km² | 64.5 /km² |
| Currency | Brazilian real (BRL) | United States dollar (USD) |
| Official languages | Portuguese | Spanish |
| Time zones | UTC-05:00, UTC-04:00, UTC-03:00, UTC-02:00 | UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00 |
| Calling code | +55 | +593 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | South America | South America |
| ISO codes | BR / BRA | EC / ECU |

## Population density

Ecuador is 2.6 times more densely populated than Brazil — 65 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 United States dollar.
- 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.

## Ecuador

The summit of Chimborazo is the point on the Earth's surface farthest from the centre of the planet — about 2 km farther out than Everest — because the equatorial bulge lifts it. The Galápagos, 900 km offshore, are volcanic islands whose isolated species shaped Darwin's thinking. Ecuador is the smallest Andean country but holds a comparable share of the range's biodiversity.

> 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 Ecuador?

Brazil is larger — 8,515,770 km² against 283,561 km².

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

Brazil, with 212,812,405 against 18,289,896.

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

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

## Related pages

- [Brazil](https://atoneplace.net/country/brazil/)
- [Ecuador](https://atoneplace.net/country/ecuador/)
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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]