---
title: "Brazil vs Ethiopia — area, population, currency"
description: "Brazil is 8,515,770 km² with 212,812,405 people; Ethiopia is 1,104,300 km² with 135,472,051. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/brazil-vs-ethiopia/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Brazil vs Ethiopia

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

8,515,770 km² vs 1,104,300 km² · 212,812,405 vs 135,472,051

Brazil is 7.7 times larger than Ethiopia — 8,515,770 against 1,104,300 km². Brazil is 1.6 times more populous than Ethiopia — 212,812,405 against 135,472,051 people.

## Side by side

|  | Brazil | Ethiopia |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Brasília | Addis Ababa |
| Area | 8,515,770 km² | 1,104,300 km² |
| Population | 212,812,405 (2025) | 135,472,051 (2025) |
| Density | 25.0 /km² | 122.7 /km² |
| Currency | Brazilian real (BRL) | Ethiopian birr (ETB) |
| Official languages | Portuguese | Amharic |
| Time zones | UTC-05:00, UTC-04:00, UTC-03:00, UTC-02:00 | UTC+03:00 |
| Calling code | +55 | +251 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | South America | Africa |
| ISO codes | BR / BRA | ET / ETH |

## Population density

Ethiopia is 4.9 times more densely populated than Brazil — 123 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 Ethiopian birr.
- 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.

## Ethiopia

Ethiopia has the highest mean elevation of any country in Africa, with more land above 3,000 m than the rest of the continent combined. The Blue Nile leaves Lake Tana here and supplies most of the Nile's flow during the flood season. The country keeps its own calendar of thirteen months, running seven to eight years behind the Gregorian one.

> 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 Ethiopia?

Brazil is larger — 8,515,770 km² against 1,104,300 km².

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

Brazil, with 212,812,405 against 135,472,051.

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

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

## Related pages

- [Brazil](https://atoneplace.net/country/brazil/)
- [Ethiopia](https://atoneplace.net/country/ethiopia/)
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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]