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title: "Brazil vs Indonesia — area, population, currency"
description: "Brazil is 8,515,770 km² with 212,812,405 people; Indonesia is 1,904,569 km² with 285,721,236. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/brazil-vs-indonesia/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Brazil vs Indonesia

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

8,515,770 km² vs 1,904,569 km² · 212,812,405 vs 285,721,236

Brazil is 4.5 times larger than Indonesia — 8,515,770 against 1,904,569 km². Indonesia is 1.3 times more populous than Brazil — 285,721,236 against 212,812,405 people.

## Side by side

|  | Brazil | Indonesia |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Brasília | Jakarta |
| Area | 8,515,770 km² | 1,904,569 km² |
| Population | 212,812,405 (2025) | 285,721,236 (2025) |
| Density | 25.0 /km² | 150.0 /km² |
| Currency | Brazilian real (BRL) | Indonesian rupiah (IDR) |
| Official languages | Portuguese | Indonesian |
| Time zones | UTC-05:00, UTC-04:00, UTC-03:00, UTC-02:00 | UTC+07:00, UTC+08:00, UTC+09:00 |
| Calling code | +55 | +62 |
| Drives on the | right | left |
| Continent | South America | Asia |
| ISO codes | BR / BRA | ID / IDN |

## Population density

Indonesia is 6.0 times more densely populated than Brazil — 150 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

- They drive on opposite sides — Brazil on the right, Indonesia on the left.
- Different currencies: the Brazilian real and the Indonesian rupiah.
- Brazil spans 4 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
- Different continents — South America and Asia.

## 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.

## Indonesia

The largest archipelago in the world: official surveys count more than 17,000 islands, of which around 6,000 are inhabited, spread over 5,100 km of ocean. Indonesia sits on the Pacific Ring of Fire and has about 130 active volcanoes, more than any other country. It also holds more of the world's remaining tropical peatland than anywhere except the Congo basin.

> 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 Indonesia?

Brazil is larger — 8,515,770 km² against 1,904,569 km².

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

Indonesia, with 285,721,236 against 212,812,405.

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

Brazil is UTC-05:00, UTC-04:00, UTC-03:00, UTC-02:00 and Indonesia is UTC+07:00, UTC+08:00, UTC+09:00. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

## Related pages

- [Brazil](https://atoneplace.net/country/brazil/)
- [Indonesia](https://atoneplace.net/country/indonesia/)
- [India vs Indonesia](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/india-vs-indonesia/)
- [China vs Indonesia](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/china-vs-indonesia/)
- [Canada vs Indonesia](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-indonesia/)
- [Australia vs Brazil](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-brazil/)
- [Australia vs Indonesia](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-indonesia/)
- [France vs Indonesia](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/france-vs-indonesia/)
- [Germany vs Indonesia](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/germany-vs-indonesia/)
- [Brazil vs United States](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/brazil-vs-united-states/)
- [Brazil vs India](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/brazil-vs-india/)
- [Brazil vs China](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/brazil-vs-china/)
- [Brazil vs United Kingdom](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/brazil-vs-united-kingdom/)
- [Brazil vs Japan](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/brazil-vs-japan/)

## 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]