Dominican Republic vs United States

United States is 202 times larger than Dominican Republic — 9,833,517 against 48,670 km². United States is 30 times more populous than Dominican Republic — 341,784,857 against 11,520,487 people.

Side by side

Population density

Dominican Republic is 6.8 times more densely populated than United States — 237 against 35 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 Dominican peso and the United States dollar.
• United States spans 6 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.

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 States

Third or fourth largest country in the world depending on how China's area is counted. It spans six standard time zones across the fifty states, from UTC-10 in Hawaii to UTC-5 on the east coast. Death Valley holds the highest reliably recorded air temperature on Earth, 56.7 °C in 1913, and is 86 m below sea level; Denali, 5,500 km away in Alaska, is 6,190 m.

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.