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title: "Canada vs Denmark — area, population, currency"
description: "Canada is 9,984,670 km² with 41,651,653 people; Denmark is 43,094 km² with 6,009,169. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-denmark/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Canada vs Denmark

**Canada vs Denmark: Canada is larger; Canada has more people**

9,984,670 km² vs 43,094 km² · 41,651,653 vs 6,009,169

Canada is 232 times larger than Denmark — 9,984,670 against 43,094 km². Canada is 6.9 times more populous than Denmark — 41,651,653 against 6,009,169 people.

## Side by side

|  | Canada | Denmark |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Ottawa | Copenhagen |
| Area | 9,984,670 km² | 43,094 km² |
| Population | 41,651,653 (2025) | 6,009,169 (2025) |
| Density | 4.2 /km² | 139.4 /km² |
| Currency | Canadian dollar (CAD) | Danish krone (DKK) |
| Official languages | English, French | Danish |
| Time zones | UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00, UTC-04:00, UTC-03:30 | UTC+01:00 |
| Calling code | +1 | +45 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | North America | Europe |
| ISO codes | CA / CAN | DK / DNK |

## Population density

Denmark is 33 times more densely populated than Canada — 139 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 Danish krone.
- Canada spans 6 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
- Different continents — North America and Europe.

## 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.

## Denmark

Denmark proper is a peninsula plus 406 islands, about 70 of them inhabited, and no point is more than 52 km from the sea. The highest natural point is Møllehøj at 170 m. Including Greenland and the Faroe Islands, the Kingdom of Denmark spans more than 2.2 million km².

> 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 Canada bigger than Denmark?

Canada is larger — 9,984,670 km² against 43,094 km².

### Which has more people, Canada or Denmark?

Canada, with 41,651,653 against 6,009,169.

### What is the time difference between Canada and Denmark?

Canada is UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00, UTC-04:00, UTC-03:30 and Denmark is UTC+01:00. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

## Related pages

- [Canada](https://atoneplace.net/country/canada/)
- [Denmark](https://atoneplace.net/country/denmark/)
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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]