Canada vs Hong Kong

Canada is 9011 times larger than Hong Kong — 9,984,670 against 1,108 km². Canada is 5.6 times more populous than Hong Kong — 41,651,653 against 7,498,900 people.

Side by side

Population density

Hong Kong is 1622 times more densely populated than Canada — 6,768 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

• They drive on opposite sides — Canada on the right, Hong Kong on the left.
• Different currencies: the Canadian dollar and the Hong Kong dollar.
• Canada spans 6 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
• Different continents — North America and Asia.

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.

Hong Kong

One of the most densely populated places on Earth, yet roughly three-quarters of its land is undeveloped countryside and about forty percent is protected country park. It has 263 islands and around 730 km of coastline. There are more skyscrapers over 150 m here than in any other city.

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.