Brazil vs United Arab Emirates

Brazil is 102 times larger than United Arab Emirates — 8,515,770 against 83,600 km². Brazil is 18 times more populous than United Arab Emirates — 212,812,405 against 11,513,149 people.

Side by side

Population density

United Arab Emirates is 5.5 times more densely populated than Brazil — 138 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 United Arab Emirates dirham.
• 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.

United Arab Emirates

The Burj Khalifa in Dubai is 828 m, the tallest building in the world, and has been since 2010. Most of the country is desert; the Liwa Oasis on the edge of the Empty Quarter carries dunes over 250 m high. Jebel Jais in the Hajar mountains reaches 1,934 m and sees occasional 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.