Czechia vs United Kingdom

United Kingdom is 3.1 times larger than Czechia — 243,610 against 78,867 km². United Kingdom is 6.4 times more populous than Czechia — 69,487,000 against 10,886,878 people.

Side by side

Population density

United Kingdom is 2.1 times more densely populated than Czechia — 285 against 138 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 — Czechia on the right, United Kingdom on the left.
• Different currencies: the Czech koruna and the British pound.

Czechia

Landlocked and ringed by low mountains, so almost every river flows outward — the Elbe to the North Sea, the Oder to the Baltic, the Morava to the Black Sea. Czechia drinks more beer per head than any other country, and Pilsner Urquell in 1842 was the first pale lager.

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.