Ethiopia vs United States

United States is 8.9 times larger than Ethiopia — 9,833,517 against 1,104,300 km². United States is 2.5 times more populous than Ethiopia — 341,784,857 against 135,472,051 people.

Side by side

Population density

Ethiopia is 3.5 times more densely populated than United States — 123 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 Ethiopian birr and the United States dollar.
• United States spans 6 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
• Different continents — Africa and North America.

Ethiopia

Ethiopia has the highest mean elevation of any country in Africa, with more land above 3,000 m than the rest of the continent combined. The Blue Nile leaves Lake Tana here and supplies most of the Nile's flow during the flood season. The country keeps its own calendar of thirteen months, running seven to eight years behind the Gregorian one.

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.