---
title: "India vs Nepal — area, population, currency"
description: "India is 3,287,263 km² with 1,463,865,525 people; Nepal is 147,181 km² with 29,618,118. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/india-vs-nepal/
site: "At One Place"
---

# India vs Nepal

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

3,287,263 km² vs 147,181 km² · 1,463,865,525 vs 29,618,118

India is 22 times larger than Nepal — 3,287,263 against 147,181 km². India is 49 times more populous than Nepal — 1,463,865,525 against 29,618,118 people.

## Side by side

|  | India | Nepal |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | New Delhi | Kathmandu |
| Area | 3,287,263 km² | 147,181 km² |
| Population | 1,463,865,525 (2025) | 29,618,118 (2025) |
| Density | 445.3 /km² | 201.2 /km² |
| Currency | Indian rupee (INR) | Nepalese rupee (NPR) |
| Official languages | Hindi, English | Nepali |
| Time zones | UTC+05:30 | UTC+05:45 |
| Calling code | +91 | +977 |
| Drives on the | left | left |
| Continent | Asia | Asia |
| ISO codes | IN / IND | NP / NPL |

## Population density

India is 2.2 times more densely populated than Nepal — 445 against 201 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 Nepalese rupee.

## 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.

## Nepal

Eight of the world's fourteen peaks above 8,000 m are here, including Everest at 8,849 m on the Chinese border. Elevation runs from 59 m in the southern plains to the top of the world in about 200 km. Nepal keeps its clock 5 hours 45 minutes ahead of UTC — the only country whose national standard time sits on a 45-minute offset.

> 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 Nepal?

India is larger — 3,287,263 km² against 147,181 km².

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

India, with 1,463,865,525 against 29,618,118.

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

India is UTC+05:30 and Nepal is UTC+05:45. 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]