Canada vs Pakistan

Canada is 13 times larger than Pakistan — 9,984,670 against 796,095 km². Pakistan is 6.1 times more populous than Canada — 255,219,554 against 41,651,653 people.

Side by side

Population density

Pakistan is 77 times more densely populated than Canada — 321 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, Pakistan on the left.
• Different currencies: the Canadian dollar and the Pakistani rupee.
• 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.

Pakistan

Five of the world's fourteen 8,000 m peaks stand in northern Pakistan, including K2 at 8,611 m. Outside the polar regions, this is the most heavily glaciated place on Earth: the Karakoram holds several glaciers over 50 km long, among them Siachen and Baltoro. The Indus runs about 3,200 km from Tibet to the Arabian Sea.

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.