---
title: "India vs Taiwan — area, population, currency"
description: "India is 3,287,263 km² with 1,463,865,525 people; Taiwan is 35,980 km² with 23,600,776. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/india-vs-taiwan/
site: "At One Place"
---

# India vs Taiwan

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

3,287,263 km² vs 35,980 km² · 1,463,865,525 vs 23,600,776

India is 91 times larger than Taiwan — 3,287,263 against 35,980 km². India is 62 times more populous than Taiwan — 1,463,865,525 against 23,600,776 people.

## Side by side

|  | India | Taiwan |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | New Delhi | Taipei |
| Area | 3,287,263 km² | 35,980 km² |
| Population | 1,463,865,525 (2025) | 23,600,776 (2025) |
| Density | 445.3 /km² | 655.9 /km² |
| Currency | Indian rupee (INR) | New Taiwan dollar (TWD) |
| Official languages | Hindi, English | Mandarin Chinese |
| Time zones | UTC+05:30 | UTC+08:00 |
| Calling code | +91 | +886 |
| Drives on the | left | right |
| Continent | Asia | Asia |
| ISO codes | IN / IND | TW / TWN |

## Population density

Taiwan is 1.5 times more densely populated than India — 656 against 445 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, Taiwan on the right.
- Different currencies: the Indian rupee and the New Taiwan dollar.

## 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.

## Taiwan

A mountainous island: 268 peaks rise above 3,000 m in an area smaller than Switzerland, and Yushan reaches 3,952 m. Taroko Gorge is cut about 19 km through marble. The island sits on the Ring of Fire and the Tropic of Cancer crosses it, so the south is tropical and the high interior gets snow.

> 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 Taiwan?

India is larger — 3,287,263 km² against 35,980 km².

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

India, with 1,463,865,525 against 23,600,776.

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

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

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- [Taiwan](https://atoneplace.net/country/taiwan/)
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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]