Brazil vs Kenya

Brazil is 15 times larger than Kenya — 8,515,770 against 580,367 km². Brazil is 3.7 times more populous than Kenya — 212,812,405 against 57,532,493 people.

Side by side

Population density

Kenya is 4.0 times more densely populated than Brazil — 99 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, Kenya on the left.
• Different currencies: the Brazilian real and the Kenyan shilling.
• 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.

Kenya

The Great Rift Valley runs the length of the country, and the equator crosses it just north of Nairobi. Mount Kenya reaches 5,199 m and carries glaciers within 20 km of the equator. Lake Turkana in the north is the largest permanent desert lake in the world.

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.