---
title: "Croatia vs Russia — area, population, currency"
description: "Croatia is 56,594 km² with 3,876,200 people; Russia is 17,098,242 km² with 143,513,328. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/croatia-vs-russia/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Croatia vs Russia

**Croatia vs Russia: Russia is larger; Russia has more people**

56,594 km² vs 17,098,242 km² · 3,876,200 vs 143,513,328

Russia is 302 times larger than Croatia — 17,098,242 against 56,594 km². Russia is 37 times more populous than Croatia — 143,513,328 against 3,876,200 people.

## Side by side

|  | Croatia | Russia |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Zagreb | Moscow |
| Area | 56,594 km² | 17,098,242 km² |
| Population | 3,876,200 (2025) | 143,513,328 (2025) |
| Density | 68.5 /km² | 8.4 /km² |
| Currency | Euro (EUR) | Russian ruble (RUB) |
| Official languages | Croatian | Russian |
| Time zones | UTC+01:00 | UTC+02:00, UTC+03:00, UTC+04:00, UTC+05:00, UTC+06:00, UTC+07:00, UTC+08:00, UTC+09:00, UTC+10:00, UTC+11:00, UTC+12:00 |
| Calling code | +385 | +7 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | Europe | Europe |
| ISO codes | HR / HRV | RU / RUS |

## Population density

Croatia is 8.2 times more densely populated than Russia — 68 against 8 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 Euro and the Russian ruble.
- Russia spans 11 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.

## Croatia

The Adriatic coast is about 1,780 km long as the crow flies but roughly 6,000 km including the 1,200-odd islands, islets and reefs, of which about fifty are inhabited. Plitvice is sixteen terraced lakes linked by waterfalls, dammed by travertine that the water itself deposits and which is still growing about a centimetre a year.

## Russia

The largest country in the world by land area, close to twice the size of the next one, and it spans eleven time zones. Lake Baikal in Siberia is the deepest lake on Earth at 1,642 m and holds roughly a fifth of the world's unfrozen fresh water — more than all five North American Great Lakes combined. Russia and China each border fourteen countries, more than any other state.

> 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 Croatia bigger than Russia?

Russia is larger — 17,098,242 km² against 56,594 km².

### Which has more people, Croatia or Russia?

Russia, with 143,513,328 against 3,876,200.

### What is the time difference between Croatia and Russia?

Croatia is UTC+01:00 and Russia is UTC+02:00, UTC+03:00, UTC+04:00, UTC+05:00, UTC+06:00, UTC+07:00, UTC+08:00, UTC+09:00, UTC+10:00, UTC+11:00, UTC+12:00. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

## Related pages

- [Croatia](https://atoneplace.net/country/croatia/)
- [Russia](https://atoneplace.net/country/russia/)
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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]