---
title: "Russia vs Vietnam — area, population, currency"
description: "Russia is 17,098,242 km² with 143,513,328 people; Vietnam is 331,210 km² with 101,598,527. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/russia-vs-vietnam/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Russia vs Vietnam

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

17,098,242 km² vs 331,210 km² · 143,513,328 vs 101,598,527

Russia is 52 times larger than Vietnam — 17,098,242 against 331,210 km². Russia is 1.4 times more populous than Vietnam — 143,513,328 against 101,598,527 people.

## Side by side

|  | Russia | Vietnam |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Moscow | Hanoi |
| Area | 17,098,242 km² | 331,210 km² |
| Population | 143,513,328 (2025) | 101,598,527 (2025) |
| Density | 8.4 /km² | 306.7 /km² |
| Currency | Russian ruble (RUB) | Vietnamese đồng (VND) |
| Official languages | Russian | Vietnamese |
| 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+07:00 |
| Calling code | +7 | +84 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | Europe | Asia |
| ISO codes | RU / RUS | VN / VNM |

## Population density

Vietnam is 37 times more densely populated than Russia — 307 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 Vietnamese đồng.
- Russia spans 11 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
- Different continents — Europe and Asia.

## 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.

## Vietnam

Long and narrow: about 1,650 km from north to south and under 50 km wide at the waist. Hang Sơn Đoòng in Phong Nha is the largest known cave passage in the world, big enough to hold a New York block of 40-storey buildings, with its own river, jungle and clouds. Hạ Long Bay holds roughly 1,600 limestone karst islands.

> 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 Vietnam?

Russia is larger — 17,098,242 km² against 331,210 km².

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

Russia, with 143,513,328 against 101,598,527.

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

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 Vietnam is UTC+07:00. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

## Related pages

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

## 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]