Philippines vs United Kingdom

Philippines is 1.2 times larger than United Kingdom — 300,000 against 243,610 km². Philippines is 1.7 times more populous than United Kingdom — 116,786,962 against 69,487,000 people.

Side by side

Population density

Philippines is 1.4 times more densely populated than United Kingdom — 389 against 285 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 — Philippines on the right, United Kingdom on the left.
• Different currencies: the Philippine peso and the British pound.
• 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.

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.