---
title: "India vs Vietnam — area, population, currency"
description: "India is 3,287,263 km² with 1,463,865,525 people; Vietnam is 331,210 km² with 101,598,527. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/india-vs-vietnam/
site: "At One Place"
---

# India vs Vietnam

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

3,287,263 km² vs 331,210 km² · 1,463,865,525 vs 101,598,527

India is 9.9 times larger than Vietnam — 3,287,263 against 331,210 km². India is 14 times more populous than Vietnam — 1,463,865,525 against 101,598,527 people.

## Side by side

|  | India | Vietnam |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | New Delhi | Hanoi |
| Area | 3,287,263 km² | 331,210 km² |
| Population | 1,463,865,525 (2025) | 101,598,527 (2025) |
| Density | 445.3 /km² | 306.7 /km² |
| Currency | Indian rupee (INR) | Vietnamese đồng (VND) |
| Official languages | Hindi, English | Vietnamese |
| Time zones | UTC+05:30 | UTC+07:00 |
| Calling code | +91 | +84 |
| Drives on the | left | right |
| Continent | Asia | Asia |
| ISO codes | IN / IND | VN / VNM |

## Population density

India is 1.5 times more densely populated than Vietnam — 445 against 307 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, Vietnam on the right.
- Different currencies: the Indian rupee and the Vietnamese đồng.

## 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.

## Vietnam

Long and narrow: about 1,650 km from north to south and under 50 km wide at the waist. Hang Sơn Đoòng in Phong Nha is the largest known cave passage in the world, big enough to hold a New York block of 40-storey buildings, with its own river, jungle and clouds. Hạ Long Bay holds roughly 1,600 limestone karst islands.

> 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 Vietnam?

India is larger — 3,287,263 km² against 331,210 km².

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

India, with 1,463,865,525 against 101,598,527.

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

India is UTC+05:30 and Vietnam is UTC+07:00. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

## Related pages

- [India](https://atoneplace.net/country/india/)
- [Vietnam](https://atoneplace.net/country/vietnam/)
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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]