India vs Nigeria

India is 3.6 times larger than Nigeria — 3,287,263 against 923,768 km². India is 6.2 times more populous than Nigeria — 1,463,865,525 against 237,527,782 people.

Side by side

Population density

India is 1.7 times more densely populated than Nigeria — 445 against 257 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 — India on the left, Nigeria on the right.
• Different currencies: the Indian rupee and the Nigerian naira.
• Different continents — Asia and Africa.

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.

Nigeria

The most populous country in Africa, with roughly one African in six. The Niger Delta is the largest river delta in Africa at about 70,000 km², a maze of creeks and mangrove covering an area the size of Ireland.

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.