Spain vs Thailand

Thailand is slightly larger, by 1.5% — 513,120 against 505,370 km². Thailand is 1.5 times more populous than Spain — 71,619,863 against 49,355,143 people.

Side by side

Population density

Thailand is 1.4 times more densely populated than Spain — 140 against 98 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 — Spain on the right, Thailand on the left.
• Different currencies: the Euro and the Thai baht.
• Spain spans 2 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
• Different continents — Europe and Asia.

Spain

After Switzerland, Spain is the most mountainous country in Europe, with an average elevation around 650 m. The Canary Islands sit off Africa, which is why part of Spain is on a different time zone and why Teide, at 3,715 m, is the country's highest point. Spain has more olive trees than any other country, around 340 million.

Thailand

Roughly 3,200 km of coastline on two separate seas, the Andaman and the Gulf of Thailand, joined only by the narrow Kra Isthmus. The country's full ceremonial name for Bangkok, Krung Thep Mahanakhon and the rest, is the longest place name in the world at 168 letters in transliteration.

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.