---
title: "India vs Pakistan — area, population, currency"
description: "India is 3,287,263 km² with 1,463,865,525 people; Pakistan is 796,095 km² with 255,219,554. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/india-vs-pakistan/
site: "At One Place"
---

# India vs Pakistan

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

3,287,263 km² vs 796,095 km² · 1,463,865,525 vs 255,219,554

India is 4.1 times larger than Pakistan — 3,287,263 against 796,095 km². India is 5.7 times more populous than Pakistan — 1,463,865,525 against 255,219,554 people.

## Side by side

|  | India | Pakistan |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | New Delhi | Islamabad |
| Area | 3,287,263 km² | 796,095 km² |
| Population | 1,463,865,525 (2025) | 255,219,554 (2025) |
| Density | 445.3 /km² | 320.6 /km² |
| Currency | Indian rupee (INR) | Pakistani rupee (PKR) |
| Official languages | Hindi, English | English, Urdu |
| Time zones | UTC+05:30 | UTC+05:00 |
| Calling code | +91 | +92 |
| Drives on the | left | left |
| Continent | Asia | Asia |
| ISO codes | IN / IND | PK / PAK |

## Population density

India is 1.4 times more densely populated than Pakistan — 445 against 321 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 Pakistani 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.

## Pakistan

Five of the world's fourteen 8,000 m peaks stand in northern Pakistan, including K2 at 8,611 m. Outside the polar regions, this is the most heavily glaciated place on Earth: the Karakoram holds several glaciers over 50 km long, among them Siachen and Baltoro. The Indus runs about 3,200 km from Tibet to the Arabian Sea.

> 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 Pakistan?

India is larger — 3,287,263 km² against 796,095 km².

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

India, with 1,463,865,525 against 255,219,554.

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

India is UTC+05:30 and Pakistan is UTC+05:00. 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]