Ecuador vs United Kingdom

Ecuador is 1.2 times larger than United Kingdom — 283,561 against 243,610 km². United Kingdom is 3.8 times more populous than Ecuador — 69,487,000 against 18,289,896 people.

Side by side

Population density

United Kingdom is 4.4 times more densely populated than Ecuador — 285 against 65 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 — Ecuador on the right, United Kingdom on the left.
• Different currencies: the United States dollar and the British pound.
• Ecuador spans 2 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
• Different continents — South America and Europe.

Ecuador

The summit of Chimborazo is the point on the Earth's surface farthest from the centre of the planet — about 2 km farther out than Everest — because the equatorial bulge lifts it. The Galápagos, 900 km offshore, are volcanic islands whose isolated species shaped Darwin's thinking. Ecuador is the smallest Andean country but holds a comparable share of the range's biodiversity.

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.