Brazil vs Portugal

Brazil is 92 times larger than Portugal — 8,515,770 against 92,090 km². Brazil is 20 times more populous than Portugal — 212,812,405 against 10,804,871 people.

Side by side

Population density

Portugal is 4.7 times more densely populated than Brazil — 117 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.

Portugal

Mainland Portugal plus the Azores and Madeira, which push its exclusive economic zone to one of the largest in Europe. Cabo da Roca is the westernmost point of mainland Europe. Portugal produces around half the world's cork, most of it from the montado oak landscapes of the Alentejo.

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.