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title: "Taiwan vs United States — area, population, currency"
description: "Taiwan is 35,980 km² with 23,600,776 people; United States is 9,833,517 km² with 341,784,857. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/taiwan-vs-united-states/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Taiwan vs United States

**Taiwan vs United States: United States is larger; United States has more people**

35,980 km² vs 9,833,517 km² · 23,600,776 vs 341,784,857

United States is 273 times larger than Taiwan — 9,833,517 against 35,980 km². United States is 14 times more populous than Taiwan — 341,784,857 against 23,600,776 people.

## Side by side

|  | Taiwan | United States |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Taipei | Washington, D.C. |
| Area | 35,980 km² | 9,833,517 km² |
| Population | 23,600,776 (2025) | 341,784,857 (2025) |
| Density | 655.9 /km² | 34.8 /km² |
| Currency | New Taiwan dollar (TWD) | United States dollar (USD) |
| Official languages | Mandarin Chinese | English |
| Time zones | UTC+08:00 | UTC-10:00, UTC-09:00, UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00 |
| Calling code | +886 | +1 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | Asia | North America |
| ISO codes | TW / TWN | US / USA |

## Population density

Taiwan is 19 times more densely populated than United States — 656 against 35 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 New Taiwan dollar and the United States dollar.
- United States spans 6 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
- Different continents — Asia and North America.

## Taiwan

A mountainous island: 268 peaks rise above 3,000 m in an area smaller than Switzerland, and Yushan reaches 3,952 m. Taroko Gorge is cut about 19 km through marble. The island sits on the Ring of Fire and the Tropic of Cancer crosses it, so the south is tropical and the high interior gets snow.

## United States

Third or fourth largest country in the world depending on how China's area is counted. It spans six standard time zones across the fifty states, from UTC-10 in Hawaii to UTC-5 on the east coast. Death Valley holds the highest reliably recorded air temperature on Earth, 56.7 °C in 1913, and is 86 m below sea level; Denali, 5,500 km away in Alaska, is 6,190 m.

> 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 Taiwan bigger than United States?

United States is larger — 9,833,517 km² against 35,980 km².

### Which has more people, Taiwan or United States?

United States, with 341,784,857 against 23,600,776.

### What is the time difference between Taiwan and United States?

Taiwan is UTC+08:00 and United States is UTC-10:00, UTC-09:00, UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

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- [United States](https://atoneplace.net/country/united-states/)
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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]