Canada vs United Kingdom

Canada is 41 times larger than United Kingdom — 9,984,670 against 243,610 km². United Kingdom is 1.7 times more populous than Canada — 69,487,000 against 41,651,653 people.

Side by side

Population density

United Kingdom is 68 times more densely populated than Canada — 285 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, United Kingdom on the left.
• Different currencies: the Canadian dollar and the British pound.
• 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.

United Kingdom

Made up of Great Britain, the north-east of Ireland and around 6,000 smaller islands. No point in the UK is more than about 113 km from the sea. Ben Nevis, the highest point, is 1,345 m, which is modest — but the country has around 31,000 km of coastline once every inlet is counted.

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.