Dominican Republic vs United Kingdom

United Kingdom is 5.0 times larger than Dominican Republic — 243,610 against 48,670 km². United Kingdom is 6.0 times more populous than Dominican Republic — 69,487,000 against 11,520,487 people.

Side by side

Population density

United Kingdom is 1.2 times more densely populated than Dominican Republic — 285 against 237 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, United Kingdom on the left.
• Different currencies: the Dominican peso and the British pound.
• Different continents — North America and Europe.

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.

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.