Canada vs Germany

Canada is 28 times larger than Germany — 9,984,670 against 357,022 km². Germany is 2.0 times more populous than Canada — 83,491,249 against 41,651,653 people.

Side by side

Population density

Germany is 56 times more densely populated than Canada — 234 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 Euro.
• 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.

Germany

Germany borders nine countries, more than any other in Europe. The Rhine carries more freight than any other river in Europe. The country has around 25,000 castles and palaces, and the Black Forest and Bavarian Alps mean about a third of it is wooded.

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.