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title: "Brazil vs Italy — area, population, currency"
description: "Brazil is 8,515,770 km² with 212,812,405 people; Italy is 301,340 km² with 58,915,656. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/brazil-vs-italy/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Brazil vs Italy

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

8,515,770 km² vs 301,340 km² · 212,812,405 vs 58,915,656

Brazil is 28 times larger than Italy — 8,515,770 against 301,340 km². Brazil is 3.6 times more populous than Italy — 212,812,405 against 58,915,656 people.

## Side by side

|  | Brazil | Italy |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Brasília | Rome |
| Area | 8,515,770 km² | 301,340 km² |
| Population | 212,812,405 (2025) | 58,915,656 (2025) |
| Density | 25.0 /km² | 195.5 /km² |
| Currency | Brazilian real (BRL) | Euro (EUR) |
| Official languages | Portuguese | Italian |
| Time zones | UTC-05:00, UTC-04:00, UTC-03:00, UTC-02:00 | UTC+01:00 |
| Calling code | +55 | +39 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | South America | Europe |
| ISO codes | BR / BRA | IT / ITA |

## Population density

Italy is 7.8 times more densely populated than Brazil — 196 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 Euro.
- Brazil spans 4 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
- Different continents — South America and Europe.

## 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.

## Italy

Italy has three of Europe's most active volcanoes — Etna, Stromboli and Vesuvius — and Stromboli has been erupting more or less continuously for at least 2,000 years. It has more UNESCO World Heritage sites than any other country. The Alps and Apennines mean about three-quarters of the land is mountain or hill.

> 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 Italy?

Brazil is larger — 8,515,770 km² against 301,340 km².

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

Brazil, with 212,812,405 against 58,915,656.

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

Brazil is UTC-05:00, UTC-04:00, UTC-03:00, UTC-02:00 and Italy is UTC+01:00. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

## Related pages

- [Brazil](https://atoneplace.net/country/brazil/)
- [Italy](https://atoneplace.net/country/italy/)
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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]