Canada vs Venezuela

Canada is 11 times larger than Venezuela — 9,984,670 against 912,050 km². Canada is 1.5 times more populous than Venezuela — 41,651,653 against 28,516,896 people.

Side by side

Population density

Venezuela is 7.5 times more densely populated than Canada — 31 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 Venezuelan bolívar soberano.
• Canada spans 6 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
• Different continents — North America and South America.

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.

Venezuela

Angel Falls drops 979 m from the top of Auyán-tepui, the highest uninterrupted waterfall in the world — so high that in the dry season much of the water turns to mist before it lands. The tepuis are flat-topped sandstone table mountains, each an island of species cut off for millions of years. Lake Maracaibo sees more lightning than anywhere else on Earth, around 250 strikes per km² a year.

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.