Canada vs Nigeria

Canada is 11 times larger than Nigeria — 9,984,670 against 923,768 km². Nigeria is 5.7 times more populous than Canada — 237,527,782 against 41,651,653 people.

Side by side

Population density

Nigeria is 62 times more densely populated than Canada — 257 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 Nigerian naira.
• 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.

Nigeria

The most populous country in Africa, with roughly one African in six. The Niger Delta is the largest river delta in Africa at about 70,000 km², a maze of creeks and mangrove covering an area the size of Ireland.

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.