---
title: "Brazil vs South Korea — area, population, currency"
description: "Brazil is 8,515,770 km² with 212,812,405 people; South Korea is 99,720 km² with 51,684,564. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/brazil-vs-south-korea/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Brazil vs South Korea

**Brazil vs South Korea: Brazil is larger; Brazil has more people**

8,515,770 km² vs 99,720 km² · 212,812,405 vs 51,684,564

Brazil is 85 times larger than South Korea — 8,515,770 against 99,720 km². Brazil is 4.1 times more populous than South Korea — 212,812,405 against 51,684,564 people.

## Side by side

|  | Brazil | South Korea |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Brasília | Seoul |
| Area | 8,515,770 km² | 99,720 km² |
| Population | 212,812,405 (2025) | 51,684,564 (2025) |
| Density | 25.0 /km² | 518.3 /km² |
| Currency | Brazilian real (BRL) | South Korean won (KRW) |
| Official languages | Portuguese | Korean |
| Time zones | UTC-05:00, UTC-04:00, UTC-03:00, UTC-02:00 | UTC+09:00 |
| Calling code | +55 | +82 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | South America | Asia |
| ISO codes | BR / BRA | KR / KOR |

## Population density

South Korea is 21 times more densely populated than Brazil — 518 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 South Korean won.
- Brazil spans 4 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
- Different continents — South America and Asia.

## 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.

## South Korea

About seventy percent mountain, so the population is packed into the valleys and coastal plains; the Seoul metropolitan area holds roughly half the country. Jeju Island is a shield volcano whose lava tube system is among the finest in the world. South Korea has the fastest average internet connections of any large country.

> 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 South Korea?

Brazil is larger — 8,515,770 km² against 99,720 km².

### Which has more people, Brazil or South Korea?

Brazil, with 212,812,405 against 51,684,564.

### What is the time difference between Brazil and South Korea?

Brazil is UTC-05:00, UTC-04:00, UTC-03:00, UTC-02:00 and South Korea is UTC+09:00. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

## Related pages

- [Brazil](https://atoneplace.net/country/brazil/)
- [South Korea](https://atoneplace.net/country/south-korea/)
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- [China vs South Korea](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/china-vs-south-korea/)
- [Japan vs South Korea](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/japan-vs-south-korea/)
- [Canada vs South Korea](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-south-korea/)
- [Australia vs Brazil](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-brazil/)
- [Australia vs South Korea](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-south-korea/)
- [New Zealand vs South Korea](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/new-zealand-vs-south-korea/)
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- [Mexico vs South Korea](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/mexico-vs-south-korea/)

## 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]