---
title: "India vs Malaysia — area, population, currency"
description: "India is 3,287,263 km² with 1,463,865,525 people; Malaysia is 329,847 km² with 35,977,838. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/india-vs-malaysia/
site: "At One Place"
---

# India vs Malaysia

**India vs Malaysia: India is larger; India has more people**

3,287,263 km² vs 329,847 km² · 1,463,865,525 vs 35,977,838

India is 10.0 times larger than Malaysia — 3,287,263 against 329,847 km². India is 41 times more populous than Malaysia — 1,463,865,525 against 35,977,838 people.

## Side by side

|  | India | Malaysia |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | New Delhi | Kuala Lumpur (national); Putrajaya (administrative) |
| Area | 3,287,263 km² | 329,847 km² |
| Population | 1,463,865,525 (2025) | 35,977,838 (2025) |
| Density | 445.3 /km² | 109.1 /km² |
| Currency | Indian rupee (INR) | Malaysian ringgit (MYR) |
| Official languages | Hindi, English | English, Malay |
| Time zones | UTC+05:30 | UTC+08:00 |
| Calling code | +91 | +60 |
| Drives on the | left | left |
| Continent | Asia | Asia |
| ISO codes | IN / IND | MY / MYS |

## Population density

India is 4.1 times more densely populated than Malaysia — 445 against 109 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 Indian rupee and the Malaysian ringgit.

## India

The most populous country in the world since 2023. The Ganges-Brahmaputra system drains the southern Himalaya into the largest delta on Earth, and Mawsynram and Cherrapunji in Meghalaya are the wettest inhabited places on record, with roughly 11 m of rain a year. Mumbai is the largest individual municipality; the Delhi urban agglomeration, which contains the capital, is larger still at around 33 million.

## Malaysia

Split between the Malay Peninsula and northern Borneo, separated by about 640 km of the South China Sea. Mount Kinabalu on Borneo is 4,095 m and still rising a few millimetres a year. The rainforest here is estimated at 130 million years old, among the oldest on Earth.

> 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.

## Common questions

### Is India bigger than Malaysia?

India is larger — 3,287,263 km² against 329,847 km².

### Which has more people, India or Malaysia?

India, with 1,463,865,525 against 35,977,838.

### What is the time difference between India and Malaysia?

India is UTC+05:30 and Malaysia is UTC+08:00. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

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## Sources

- The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency (https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/) [Public domain (US Government)]
- World Bank Open Data — The World Bank (https://data.worldbank.org/) [CC BY 4.0]