Kenya vs Russia

Russia is 29 times larger than Kenya — 17,098,242 against 580,367 km². Russia is 2.5 times more populous than Kenya — 143,513,328 against 57,532,493 people.

Side by side

Population density

Kenya is 12 times more densely populated than Russia — 99 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 — Kenya on the left, Russia on the right.
• Different currencies: the Kenyan shilling and the Russian ruble.
• Russia spans 11 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
• Different continents — Africa and Europe.

Kenya

The Great Rift Valley runs the length of the country, and the equator crosses it just north of Nairobi. Mount Kenya reaches 5,199 m and carries glaciers within 20 km of the equator. Lake Turkana in the north is the largest permanent desert lake in the world.

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.