Brazil vs Nigeria

Brazil is 9.2 times larger than Nigeria — 8,515,770 against 923,768 km². Nigeria is 1.1 times more populous than Brazil — 237,527,782 against 212,812,405 people.

Side by side

Population density

Nigeria is 10 times more densely populated than Brazil — 257 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 Nigerian naira.
• 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.

Nigeria

The most populous country in Africa, with roughly one African in six. The Niger Delta is the largest river delta in Africa at about 70,000 km², a maze of creeks and mangrove covering an area the size of Ireland.

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.