Nigeria vs Russia

Russia is 19 times larger than Nigeria — 17,098,242 against 923,768 km². Nigeria is 1.7 times more populous than Russia — 237,527,782 against 143,513,328 people.

Side by side

Population density

Nigeria is 31 times more densely populated than Russia — 257 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 Nigerian naira and the Russian ruble.
• Russia spans 11 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
• Different continents — Africa and Europe.

Nigeria

The most populous country in Africa, with roughly one African in six. The Niger Delta is the largest river delta in Africa at about 70,000 km², a maze of creeks and mangrove covering an area the size of Ireland.

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.