Canada vs Iceland

Canada is 97 times larger than Iceland — 9,984,670 against 103,000 km². Canada is 106 times more populous than Iceland — 41,651,653 against 392,404 people.

Side by side

Population density

Canada is slightly more densely populated, by 9.5% — 4 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 Icelandic króna.
• 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.

Iceland

Iceland sits astride the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, so the North American and Eurasian plates pull apart across the country at about 2 cm a year. Roughly eleven percent of it is under glacier, Vatnajökull alone covering some 7,900 km². Almost all its electricity and heating come from hydro and geothermal sources.

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.