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title: "Spain vs Venezuela — area, population, currency"
description: "Spain is 505,370 km² with 49,355,143 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/spain-vs-venezuela/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Spain vs Venezuela

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

505,370 km² vs 912,050 km² · 49,355,143 vs 28,516,896

Venezuela is 1.8 times larger than Spain — 912,050 against 505,370 km². Spain is 1.7 times more populous than Venezuela — 49,355,143 against 28,516,896 people.

## Side by side

|  | Spain | Venezuela |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Madrid | Caracas |
| Area | 505,370 km² | 912,050 km² |
| Population | 49,355,143 (2025) | 28,516,896 (2025) |
| Density | 97.7 /km² | 31.3 /km² |
| Currency | Euro (EUR) | Venezuelan bolívar soberano (VES) |
| Official languages | Spanish | Spanish |
| Time zones | UTC+00:00, UTC+01:00 | UTC-04:00 |
| Calling code | +34 | +58 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | Europe | South America |
| ISO codes | ES / ESP | VE / VEN |

## Population density

Spain is 3.1 times more densely populated than Venezuela — 98 against 31 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 Euro and the Venezuelan bolívar soberano.
- Spain spans 2 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
- Different continents — Europe and South America.

## 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.

## 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 Spain bigger than Venezuela?

Venezuela is larger — 912,050 km² against 505,370 km².

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

Spain, with 49,355,143 against 28,516,896.

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

Spain is UTC+00:00, UTC+01:00 and Venezuela is UTC-04:00. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

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## 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]