Peru vs United Kingdom

Peru is 5.3 times larger than United Kingdom — 1,285,216 against 243,610 km². United Kingdom is 2.0 times more populous than Peru — 69,487,000 against 34,576,665 people.

Side by side

Population density

United Kingdom is 11 times more densely populated than Peru — 285 against 27 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 — Peru on the right, United Kingdom on the left.
• Different currencies: the Peruvian sol and the British pound.
• Different continents — South America and Europe.

Peru

Peru holds the source of the Amazon and about sixty percent of its territory is Amazon basin, but most people live on the dry Pacific coast. Cotahuasi and Colca are among the deepest canyons in the world, both over 3,000 m. The Nazca lines, drawn on the coastal desert between about 500 BC and AD 500, cover some 450 km² and are only legible from the air or the surrounding hills.

United Kingdom

Made up of Great Britain, the north-east of Ireland and around 6,000 smaller islands. No point in the UK is more than about 113 km from the sea. Ben Nevis, the highest point, is 1,345 m, which is modest — but the country has around 31,000 km of coastline once every inlet is counted.

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.