Nigeria vs United States

United States is 11 times larger than Nigeria — 9,833,517 against 923,768 km². United States is 1.4 times more populous than Nigeria — 341,784,857 against 237,527,782 people.

Side by side

Population density

Nigeria is 7.4 times more densely populated than United States — 257 against 35 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 United States dollar.
• United States spans 6 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
• Different continents — Africa and North America.

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.

United States

Third or fourth largest country in the world depending on how China's area is counted. It spans six standard time zones across the fifty states, from UTC-10 in Hawaii to UTC-5 on the east coast. Death Valley holds the highest reliably recorded air temperature on Earth, 56.7 °C in 1913, and is 86 m below sea level; Denali, 5,500 km away in Alaska, is 6,190 m.

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.