Nigeria vs South Korea

Nigeria is 9.3 times larger than South Korea — 923,768 against 99,720 km². Nigeria is 4.6 times more populous than South Korea — 237,527,782 against 51,684,564 people.

Side by side

Population density

South Korea is 2.0 times more densely populated than Nigeria — 518 against 257 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 South Korean won.
• Different continents — Africa and Asia.

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.

South Korea

About seventy percent mountain, so the population is packed into the valleys and coastal plains; the Seoul metropolitan area holds roughly half the country. Jeju Island is a shield volcano whose lava tube system is among the finest in the world. South Korea has the fastest average internet connections of any large country.

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.