Philippines vs Russia

Russia is 57 times larger than Philippines — 17,098,242 against 300,000 km². Russia is 1.2 times more populous than Philippines — 143,513,328 against 116,786,962 people.

Side by side

Population density

Philippines is 46 times more densely populated than Russia — 389 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 Philippine peso and the Russian ruble.
• Russia spans 11 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
• Different continents — Asia and Europe.

Philippines

An archipelago of 7,641 islands, of which about 2,000 are inhabited. The Philippine Trench off the east coast reaches 10,540 m, one of the deepest points in any ocean. The country sits in the most typhoon-exposed part of the planet and takes around twenty named storms a year.

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.