Ireland vs Ukraine

Ukraine is 8.6 times larger than Ireland — 603,550 against 70,273 km². Ukraine is 7.1 times more populous than Ireland — 38,980,376 against 5,484,367 people.

Side by side

Population density

Ireland is 1.2 times more densely populated than Ukraine — 78 against 65 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 — Ireland on the left, Ukraine on the right.
• Different currencies: the Euro and the Ukrainian hryvnia.

Ireland

The interior is a low limestone plain ringed by coastal mountains, which is why the rivers drain inward and the middle of the country is bog. The Cliffs of Moher run 14 km and reach 214 m. Ireland has no native snakes, and only one native reptile.

Ukraine

The largest country entirely within Europe. About a quarter of the world's chernozem — the deep black soil that makes grain farming so productive — lies here. The Carpathians in the west reach 2,061 m, and the rest of the country is largely steppe drained by the Dnieper.

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.