Brazil vs New Zealand

Brazil is 32 times larger than New Zealand — 8,515,770 against 268,838 km². Brazil is 40 times more populous than New Zealand — 212,812,405 against 5,324,700 people.

Side by side

Population density

Brazil is 1.3 times more densely populated than New Zealand — 25 against 20 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, New Zealand on the left.
• Different currencies: the Brazilian real and the New Zealand dollar.
• Brazil spans 4 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
• Different continents — South America and Oceania.

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.

New Zealand

Two main islands and around 600 smaller ones, roughly 1,600 km long. New Zealand broke away from Gondwana about 80 million years ago and had no land mammals except bats until people arrived, which is why so many of its birds are flightless. The Southern Alps run most of the South Island and reach 3,724 m at Aoraki / Mount Cook.

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.