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title: "Denmark vs Russia — area, population, currency"
description: "Denmark is 43,094 km² with 6,009,169 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/denmark-vs-russia/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Denmark vs Russia

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

43,094 km² vs 17,098,242 km² · 6,009,169 vs 143,513,328

Russia is 397 times larger than Denmark — 17,098,242 against 43,094 km². Russia is 24 times more populous than Denmark — 143,513,328 against 6,009,169 people.

## Side by side

|  | Denmark | Russia |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Copenhagen | Moscow |
| Area | 43,094 km² | 17,098,242 km² |
| Population | 6,009,169 (2025) | 143,513,328 (2025) |
| Density | 139.4 /km² | 8.4 /km² |
| Currency | Danish krone (DKK) | Russian ruble (RUB) |
| Official languages | Danish | 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 | +45 | +7 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | Europe | Europe |
| ISO codes | DK / DNK | RU / RUS |

## Population density

Denmark is 17 times more densely populated than Russia — 139 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 Danish krone and the Russian ruble.
- Russia spans 11 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.

## Denmark

Denmark proper is a peninsula plus 406 islands, about 70 of them inhabited, and no point is more than 52 km from the sea. The highest natural point is Møllehøj at 170 m. Including Greenland and the Faroe Islands, the Kingdom of Denmark spans more than 2.2 million km².

## 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 Denmark bigger than Russia?

Russia is larger — 17,098,242 km² against 43,094 km².

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

Russia, with 143,513,328 against 6,009,169.

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

Denmark 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.

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- [Denmark](https://atoneplace.net/country/denmark/)
- [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]