Colombia vs United Kingdom

Colombia is 4.7 times larger than United Kingdom — 1,138,910 against 243,610 km². United Kingdom is 1.3 times more populous than Colombia — 69,487,000 against 53,425,635 people.

Side by side

Population density

United Kingdom is 6.1 times more densely populated than Colombia — 285 against 47 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 — Colombia on the right, United Kingdom on the left.
• Different currencies: the Colombian peso and the British pound.
• Different continents — South America and Europe.

Colombia

The only South American country with coastline on both the Pacific and the Caribbean. It has more bird species than any other country, around 1,900, and more orchid species too. The Andes split into three separate ranges here, and the Chocó on the Pacific side is among the wettest places on Earth, with over 10 m of rain a year in places.

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.