---
title: "Russia vs Venezuela — area, population, currency"
description: "Russia is 17,098,242 km² with 143,513,328 people; Venezuela is 912,050 km² with 28,516,896. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/russia-vs-venezuela/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Russia vs Venezuela

**Russia vs Venezuela: Russia is larger; Russia has more people**

17,098,242 km² vs 912,050 km² · 143,513,328 vs 28,516,896

Russia is 19 times larger than Venezuela — 17,098,242 against 912,050 km². Russia is 5.0 times more populous than Venezuela — 143,513,328 against 28,516,896 people.

## Side by side

|  | Russia | Venezuela |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Moscow | Caracas |
| Area | 17,098,242 km² | 912,050 km² |
| Population | 143,513,328 (2025) | 28,516,896 (2025) |
| Density | 8.4 /km² | 31.3 /km² |
| Currency | Russian ruble (RUB) | Venezuelan bolívar soberano (VES) |
| Official languages | Russian | Spanish |
| Time zones | UTC+02:00, UTC+03:00, UTC+04:00, UTC+05:00, UTC+06:00, UTC+07:00, UTC+08:00, UTC+09:00, UTC+10:00, UTC+11:00, UTC+12:00 | UTC-04:00 |
| Calling code | +7 | +58 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | Europe | South America |
| ISO codes | RU / RUS | VE / VEN |

## Population density

Venezuela is 3.7 times more densely populated than Russia — 31 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 Russian ruble and the Venezuelan bolívar soberano.
- Russia spans 11 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
- Different continents — Europe and South America.

## 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.

## Venezuela

Angel Falls drops 979 m from the top of Auyán-tepui, the highest uninterrupted waterfall in the world — so high that in the dry season much of the water turns to mist before it lands. The tepuis are flat-topped sandstone table mountains, each an island of species cut off for millions of years. Lake Maracaibo sees more lightning than anywhere else on Earth, around 250 strikes per km² a year.

> 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.

## Common questions

### Is Russia bigger than Venezuela?

Russia is larger — 17,098,242 km² against 912,050 km².

### Which has more people, Russia or Venezuela?

Russia, with 143,513,328 against 28,516,896.

### What is the time difference between Russia and Venezuela?

Russia is UTC+02:00, UTC+03:00, UTC+04:00, UTC+05:00, UTC+06:00, UTC+07:00, UTC+08:00, UTC+09:00, UTC+10:00, UTC+11:00, UTC+12:00 and Venezuela is UTC-04:00. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

## Related pages

- [Russia](https://atoneplace.net/country/russia/)
- [Venezuela](https://atoneplace.net/country/venezuela/)
- [United States vs Venezuela](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/united-states-vs-venezuela/)
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- [India vs Venezuela](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/india-vs-venezuela/)
- [China vs Russia](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/china-vs-russia/)
- [China vs Venezuela](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/china-vs-venezuela/)
- [United Kingdom vs Venezuela](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/united-kingdom-vs-venezuela/)
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- [Japan vs Venezuela](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/japan-vs-venezuela/)
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- [Australia vs Venezuela](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-venezuela/)

## Sources

- The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency (https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/) [Public domain (US Government)]
- World Bank Open Data — The World Bank (https://data.worldbank.org/) [CC BY 4.0]