---
title: "India vs Russia — area, population, currency"
description: "India is 3,287,263 km² with 1,463,865,525 people; Russia is 17,098,242 km² with 143,513,328. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/india-vs-russia/
site: "At One Place"
---

# India vs Russia

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

3,287,263 km² vs 17,098,242 km² · 1,463,865,525 vs 143,513,328

Russia is 5.2 times larger than India — 17,098,242 against 3,287,263 km². India is 10 times more populous than Russia — 1,463,865,525 against 143,513,328 people.

## Side by side

|  | India | Russia |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | New Delhi | Moscow |
| Area | 3,287,263 km² | 17,098,242 km² |
| Population | 1,463,865,525 (2025) | 143,513,328 (2025) |
| Density | 445.3 /km² | 8.4 /km² |
| Currency | Indian rupee (INR) | Russian ruble (RUB) |
| Official languages | Hindi, English | Russian |
| Time zones | UTC+05:30 | UTC+02:00, UTC+03:00, UTC+04:00, UTC+05:00, UTC+06:00, UTC+07:00, UTC+08:00, UTC+09:00, UTC+10:00, UTC+11:00, UTC+12:00 |
| Calling code | +91 | +7 |
| Drives on the | left | right |
| Continent | Asia | Europe |
| ISO codes | IN / IND | RU / RUS |

## Population density

India is 53 times more densely populated than Russia — 445 against 8 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, Russia on the right.
- Different currencies: the Indian rupee and the Russian ruble.
- Russia spans 11 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
- Different continents — Asia and Europe.

## 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.

## Russia

The largest country in the world by land area, close to twice the size of the next one, and it spans eleven time zones. Lake Baikal in Siberia is the deepest lake on Earth at 1,642 m and holds roughly a fifth of the world's unfrozen fresh water — more than all five North American Great Lakes combined. Russia and China each border fourteen countries, more than any other state.

> 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 Russia?

Russia is larger — 17,098,242 km² against 3,287,263 km².

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

India, with 1,463,865,525 against 143,513,328.

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

India is UTC+05:30 and Russia is UTC+02:00, UTC+03:00, UTC+04:00, UTC+05:00, UTC+06:00, UTC+07:00, UTC+08:00, UTC+09:00, UTC+10:00, UTC+11:00, UTC+12:00. 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]