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title: "Brazil vs Taiwan — area, population, currency"
description: "Brazil is 8,515,770 km² with 212,812,405 people; Taiwan is 35,980 km² with 23,600,776. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/brazil-vs-taiwan/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Brazil vs Taiwan

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

8,515,770 km² vs 35,980 km² · 212,812,405 vs 23,600,776

Brazil is 237 times larger than Taiwan — 8,515,770 against 35,980 km². Brazil is 9.0 times more populous than Taiwan — 212,812,405 against 23,600,776 people.

## Side by side

|  | Brazil | Taiwan |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Brasília | Taipei |
| Area | 8,515,770 km² | 35,980 km² |
| Population | 212,812,405 (2025) | 23,600,776 (2025) |
| Density | 25.0 /km² | 655.9 /km² |
| Currency | Brazilian real (BRL) | New Taiwan dollar (TWD) |
| Official languages | Portuguese | Mandarin Chinese |
| Time zones | UTC-05:00, UTC-04:00, UTC-03:00, UTC-02:00 | UTC+08:00 |
| Calling code | +55 | +886 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | South America | Asia |
| ISO codes | BR / BRA | TW / TWN |

## Population density

Taiwan is 26 times more densely populated than Brazil — 656 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 New Taiwan dollar.
- 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.

## Taiwan

A mountainous island: 268 peaks rise above 3,000 m in an area smaller than Switzerland, and Yushan reaches 3,952 m. Taroko Gorge is cut about 19 km through marble. The island sits on the Ring of Fire and the Tropic of Cancer crosses it, so the south is tropical and the high interior gets snow.

> 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 Taiwan?

Brazil is larger — 8,515,770 km² against 35,980 km².

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

Brazil, with 212,812,405 against 23,600,776.

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

Brazil is UTC-05:00, UTC-04:00, UTC-03:00, UTC-02:00 and Taiwan is UTC+08:00. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

## Related pages

- [Brazil](https://atoneplace.net/country/brazil/)
- [Taiwan](https://atoneplace.net/country/taiwan/)
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- [China vs Taiwan](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/china-vs-taiwan/)
- [Japan vs Taiwan](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/japan-vs-taiwan/)
- [Canada vs Taiwan](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-taiwan/)
- [Australia vs Brazil](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-brazil/)
- [Australia vs Taiwan](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-taiwan/)
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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]