Dominican Republic vs New Zealand

New Zealand is 5.5 times larger than Dominican Republic — 268,838 against 48,670 km². Dominican Republic is 2.2 times more populous than New Zealand — 11,520,487 against 5,324,700 people.

Side by side

Population density

Dominican Republic is 12 times more densely populated than New Zealand — 237 against 20 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 — Dominican Republic on the right, New Zealand on the left.
• Different currencies: the Dominican peso and the New Zealand dollar.
• New Zealand spans 2 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
• Different continents — North America and Oceania.

Dominican Republic

Shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti. Pico Duarte at 3,098 m is the highest point in the Caribbean, and Lago Enriquillo, at about 40 m below sea level, is the lowest — both in the same country. The lake is saltier than the sea and holds American crocodiles.

New Zealand

Two main islands and around 600 smaller ones, roughly 1,600 km long. New Zealand broke away from Gondwana about 80 million years ago and had no land mammals except bats until people arrived, which is why so many of its birds are flightless. The Southern Alps run most of the South Island and reach 3,724 m at Aoraki / Mount Cook.

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.