Ukraine vs United Kingdom

Ukraine is 2.5 times larger than United Kingdom — 603,550 against 243,610 km². United Kingdom is 1.8 times more populous than Ukraine — 69,487,000 against 38,980,376 people.

Side by side

Population density

United Kingdom is 4.4 times more densely populated than Ukraine — 285 against 65 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 — Ukraine on the right, United Kingdom on the left.
• Different currencies: the Ukrainian hryvnia and the British pound.

Ukraine

The largest country entirely within Europe. About a quarter of the world's chernozem — the deep black soil that makes grain farming so productive — lies here. The Carpathians in the west reach 2,061 m, and the rest of the country is largely steppe drained by the Dnieper.

United Kingdom

Made up of Great Britain, the north-east of Ireland and around 6,000 smaller islands. No point in the UK is more than about 113 km from the sea. Ben Nevis, the highest point, is 1,345 m, which is modest — but the country has around 31,000 km of coastline once every inlet is counted.

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.