Chile vs Germany

Chile is 2.1 times larger than Germany — 756,102 against 357,022 km². Germany is 4.2 times more populous than Chile — 83,491,249 against 19,859,921 people.

Side by side

Population density

Germany is 8.9 times more densely populated than Chile — 234 against 26 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 Chilean peso and the Euro.
• Chile spans 3 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
• Different continents — South America and Europe.

Chile

About 4,300 km from north to south and averaging only around 177 km wide — one of the most elongated countries on Earth. The Atacama in the north is the driest non-polar desert in the world, and some weather stations there have never recorded rain. That dryness and altitude is why most of the world's large optical telescopes are built here.

Germany

Germany borders nine countries, more than any other in Europe. The Rhine carries more freight than any other river in Europe. The country has around 25,000 castles and palaces, and the Black Forest and Bavarian Alps mean about a third of it is wooded.

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.