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title: "Canada vs United States — area, population, currency"
description: "Canada is 9,984,670 km² with 41,651,653 people; United States is 9,833,517 km² with 341,784,857. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-united-states/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Canada vs United States

**Canada vs United States: Canada is larger; United States has more people**

9,984,670 km² vs 9,833,517 km² · 41,651,653 vs 341,784,857

Canada is slightly larger, by 1.5% — 9,984,670 against 9,833,517 km². United States is 8.2 times more populous than Canada — 341,784,857 against 41,651,653 people.

## Side by side

|  | Canada | United States |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Ottawa | Washington, D.C. |
| Area | 9,984,670 km² | 9,833,517 km² |
| Population | 41,651,653 (2025) | 341,784,857 (2025) |
| Density | 4.2 /km² | 34.8 /km² |
| Currency | Canadian dollar (CAD) | United States dollar (USD) |
| Official languages | English, French | English |
| Time zones | UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00, UTC-04:00, UTC-03:30 | UTC-10:00, UTC-09:00, UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00 |
| Calling code | +1 | +1 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | North America | North America |
| ISO codes | CA / CAN | US / USA |

## Population density

United States is 8.3 times more densely populated than Canada — 35 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 United States dollar.
- United States spans 6 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.

## 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 States

Third or fourth largest country in the world depending on how China's area is counted. It spans six standard time zones across the fifty states, from UTC-10 in Hawaii to UTC-5 on the east coast. Death Valley holds the highest reliably recorded air temperature on Earth, 56.7 °C in 1913, and is 86 m below sea level; Denali, 5,500 km away in Alaska, is 6,190 m.

> 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.

## Common questions

### Is Canada bigger than United States?

Canada is larger — 9,984,670 km² against 9,833,517 km².

### Which has more people, Canada or United States?

United States, with 341,784,857 against 41,651,653.

### What is the time difference between Canada and United States?

Canada is UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00, UTC-04:00, UTC-03:30 and United States is UTC-10:00, UTC-09:00, UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

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## Sources

- The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency (https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/) [Public domain (US Government)]
- World Bank Open Data — The World Bank (https://data.worldbank.org/) [CC BY 4.0]