Brazil vs Vatican City

Brazil is 19354023 times larger than Vatican City — 8,515,770 against 0 km². Brazil is 212812 times more populous than Vatican City — 212,812,405 against 1,000 people.

Side by side

Population density

Vatican City is 91 times more densely populated than Brazil — 2,273 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.

Vatican City

The smallest country in the world by both area and population: about 0.44 km², or roughly an eighth the size of New York's Central Park, with fewer than a thousand residents. Its border with Rome is about 3.4 km long. St Peter's Basilica covers around 15,000 m² and is one of the largest churches ever built.

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.