Canada vs Dominican Republic

Canada is 205 times larger than Dominican Republic — 9,984,670 against 48,670 km². Canada is 3.6 times more populous than Dominican Republic — 41,651,653 against 11,520,487 people.

Side by side

Population density

Dominican Republic is 57 times more densely populated than Canada — 237 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 Dominican peso.
• Canada spans 6 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.

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.

Dominican Republic

Shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti. Pico Duarte at 3,098 m is the highest point in the Caribbean, and Lago Enriquillo, at about 40 m below sea level, is the lowest — both in the same country. The lake is saltier than the sea and holds American crocodiles.

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.