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title: "Brazil vs Panama — area, population, currency"
description: "Brazil is 8,515,770 km² with 212,812,405 people; Panama is 75,420 km² with 4,571,189. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/brazil-vs-panama/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Brazil vs Panama

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

8,515,770 km² vs 75,420 km² · 212,812,405 vs 4,571,189

Brazil is 113 times larger than Panama — 8,515,770 against 75,420 km². Brazil is 47 times more populous than Panama — 212,812,405 against 4,571,189 people.

## Side by side

|  | Brazil | Panama |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Brasília | Panama City |
| Area | 8,515,770 km² | 75,420 km² |
| Population | 212,812,405 (2025) | 4,571,189 (2025) |
| Density | 25.0 /km² | 60.6 /km² |
| Currency | Brazilian real (BRL) | Panamanian balboa (PAB) |
| Official languages | Portuguese | Spanish |
| Time zones | UTC-05:00, UTC-04:00, UTC-03:00, UTC-02:00 | UTC-05:00 |
| Calling code | +55 | +507 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | South America | North America |
| ISO codes | BR / BRA | PA / PAN |

## Population density

Panama is 2.4 times more densely populated than Brazil — 61 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 Panamanian balboa.
- Brazil spans 4 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
- Different continents — South America and North America.

## 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.

## Panama

The canal is 82 km long and lifts ships 26 m up to Gatún Lake and back down, using gravity-fed fresh water rather than pumps. Because the isthmus curves, a ship going from the Atlantic to the Pacific travels roughly south-east. The Darién Gap is the only break in the 30,000 km Pan-American Highway.

> 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 Panama?

Brazil is larger — 8,515,770 km² against 75,420 km².

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

Brazil, with 212,812,405 against 4,571,189.

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

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

## Related pages

- [Brazil](https://atoneplace.net/country/brazil/)
- [Panama](https://atoneplace.net/country/panama/)
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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]