Canada vs Chile

Canada is 13 times larger than Chile — 9,984,670 against 756,102 km². Canada is 2.1 times more populous than Chile — 41,651,653 against 19,859,921 people.

Side by side

Population density

Chile is 6.3 times more densely populated than Canada — 26 against 4 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 Canadian dollar and the Chilean peso.
• Canada spans 6 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
• Different continents — North America and South America.

Canada

The second-largest country in the world by total area, and the longest coastline of any — about 202,000 km, more than the rest of the world put together. Canada holds more lake area than every other country combined, and something over two million lakes. Its border with the United States is the longest between any two countries at 8,891 km.

Chile

About 4,300 km from north to south and averaging only around 177 km wide — one of the most elongated countries on Earth. The Atacama in the north is the driest non-polar desert in the world, and some weather stations there have never recorded rain. That dryness and altitude is why most of the world's large optical telescopes are built here.

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.