Morocco vs Russia

Russia is 24 times larger than Morocco — 17,098,242 against 716,550 km². Russia is 3.7 times more populous than Morocco — 143,513,328 against 38,430,770 people.

Side by side

Population density

Morocco is 6.4 times more densely populated than Russia — 54 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

• Different currencies: the Moroccan dirham and the Russian ruble.
• Russia spans 11 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
• Different continents — Africa and Europe.

Morocco

Toubkal in the High Atlas is 4,167 m, the highest point in North Africa, and holds snow into early summer within sight of the desert. The Atlas ranges cut the country in two, wet Atlantic plains on one side and Sahara on the other.

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.