Canada vs Saudi Arabia

Canada is 4.6 times larger than Saudi Arabia — 9,984,670 against 2,149,690 km². Canada is 1.1 times more populous than Saudi Arabia — 41,651,653 against 36,973,555 people.

Side by side

Population density

Saudi Arabia is 4.1 times more densely populated than Canada — 17 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 Saudi riyal.
• 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.

Saudi Arabia

The Rub' al Khali, the Empty Quarter, is the largest continuous sand desert in the world at about 650,000 km² — bigger than France. Saudi Arabia has no permanent rivers or lakes at all, which is true of only a handful of countries. It holds roughly a sixth of the world's proven oil reserves.

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.