---
title: "Brazil vs Venezuela — area, population, currency"
description: "Brazil is 8,515,770 km² with 212,812,405 people; Venezuela is 912,050 km² with 28,516,896. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/brazil-vs-venezuela/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Brazil vs Venezuela

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

8,515,770 km² vs 912,050 km² · 212,812,405 vs 28,516,896

Brazil is 9.3 times larger than Venezuela — 8,515,770 against 912,050 km². Brazil is 7.5 times more populous than Venezuela — 212,812,405 against 28,516,896 people.

## Side by side

|  | Brazil | Venezuela |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Brasília | Caracas |
| Area | 8,515,770 km² | 912,050 km² |
| Population | 212,812,405 (2025) | 28,516,896 (2025) |
| Density | 25.0 /km² | 31.3 /km² |
| Currency | Brazilian real (BRL) | Venezuelan bolívar soberano (VES) |
| Official languages | Portuguese | Spanish |
| Time zones | UTC-05:00, UTC-04:00, UTC-03:00, UTC-02:00 | UTC-04:00 |
| Calling code | +55 | +58 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | South America | South America |
| ISO codes | BR / BRA | VE / VEN |

## Population density

Venezuela is 1.3 times more densely populated than Brazil — 31 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 Venezuelan bolívar soberano.
- Brazil spans 4 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.

## 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.

## Venezuela

Angel Falls drops 979 m from the top of Auyán-tepui, the highest uninterrupted waterfall in the world — so high that in the dry season much of the water turns to mist before it lands. The tepuis are flat-topped sandstone table mountains, each an island of species cut off for millions of years. Lake Maracaibo sees more lightning than anywhere else on Earth, around 250 strikes per km² a year.

> 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 Venezuela?

Brazil is larger — 8,515,770 km² against 912,050 km².

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

Brazil, with 212,812,405 against 28,516,896.

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

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

## Related pages

- [Brazil](https://atoneplace.net/country/brazil/)
- [Venezuela](https://atoneplace.net/country/venezuela/)
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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]