Canada vs Kenya

Canada is 17 times larger than Kenya — 9,984,670 against 580,367 km². Kenya is 1.4 times more populous than Canada — 57,532,493 against 41,651,653 people.

Side by side

Population density

Kenya is 24 times more densely populated than Canada — 99 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, Kenya on the left.
• Different currencies: the Canadian dollar and the Kenyan shilling.
• Canada spans 6 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
• Different continents — North America and Africa.

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.

Kenya

The Great Rift Valley runs the length of the country, and the equator crosses it just north of Nairobi. Mount Kenya reaches 5,199 m and carries glaciers within 20 km of the equator. Lake Turkana in the north is the largest permanent desert lake in the world.

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.