Indonesia vs United Kingdom

Indonesia is 7.8 times larger than United Kingdom — 1,904,569 against 243,610 km². Indonesia is 4.1 times more populous than United Kingdom — 285,721,236 against 69,487,000 people.

Side by side

Population density

United Kingdom is 1.9 times more densely populated than Indonesia — 285 against 150 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 Indonesian rupiah and the British pound.
• Indonesia spans 3 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
• Different continents — Asia and Europe.

Indonesia

The largest archipelago in the world: official surveys count more than 17,000 islands, of which around 6,000 are inhabited, spread over 5,100 km of ocean. Indonesia sits on the Pacific Ring of Fire and has about 130 active volcanoes, more than any other country. It also holds more of the world's remaining tropical peatland than anywhere except the Congo basin.

United Kingdom

Made up of Great Britain, the north-east of Ireland and around 6,000 smaller islands. No point in the UK is more than about 113 km from the sea. Ben Nevis, the highest point, is 1,345 m, which is modest — but the country has around 31,000 km of coastline once every inlet is counted.

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.