Greece vs Indonesia

Indonesia is 14 times larger than Greece — 1,904,569 against 131,957 km². Indonesia is 27 times more populous than Greece — 285,721,236 against 10,413,962 people.

Side by side

Population density

Indonesia is 1.9 times more densely populated than Greece — 150 against 79 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 — Greece on the right, Indonesia on the left.
• Different currencies: the Euro and the Indonesian rupiah.
• Indonesia spans 3 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
• Different continents — Europe and Asia.

Greece

Somewhere between 1,200 and 6,000 islands depending on how you count a rock, of which about 227 are inhabited. Greece has roughly 13,700 km of coastline, the longest in the Mediterranean and eleventh longest in the world. No part of the mainland is more than about 137 km from the sea, and Mount Olympus reaches 2,917 m.

Indonesia

The largest archipelago in the world: official surveys count more than 17,000 islands, of which around 6,000 are inhabited, spread over 5,100 km of ocean. Indonesia sits on the Pacific Ring of Fire and has about 130 active volcanoes, more than any other country. It also holds more of the world's remaining tropical peatland than anywhere except the Congo basin.

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.