Brazil vs Egypt

Brazil is 8.5 times larger than Egypt — 8,515,770 against 1,001,450 km². Brazil is 1.8 times more populous than Egypt — 212,812,405 against 118,365,995 people.

Side by side

Population density

Egypt is 4.7 times more densely populated than Brazil — 118 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 Egyptian pound.
• Brazil spans 4 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
• Different continents — South America and Africa.

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.

Egypt

Almost the entire population lives on the Nile valley and delta, which is only a few percent of the country's land area; the rest is desert. The Nile runs about 6,650 km from its headwaters to the Mediterranean. The Suez Canal, 193 km long, has no locks because the Mediterranean and Red Sea are close to the same level.

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.