Egypt vs United Kingdom

Egypt is 4.1 times larger than United Kingdom — 1,001,450 against 243,610 km². Egypt is 1.7 times more populous than United Kingdom — 118,365,995 against 69,487,000 people.

Side by side

Population density

United Kingdom is 2.4 times more densely populated than Egypt — 285 against 118 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 — Egypt on the right, United Kingdom on the left.
• Different currencies: the Egyptian pound and the British pound.
• Different continents — Africa and Europe.

Egypt

Almost the entire population lives on the Nile valley and delta, which is only a few percent of the country's land area; the rest is desert. The Nile runs about 6,650 km from its headwaters to the Mediterranean. The Suez Canal, 193 km long, has no locks because the Mediterranean and Red Sea are close to the same level.

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.