United Kingdom vs Vatican City

United Kingdom is 553659 times larger than Vatican City — 243,610 against 0 km². United Kingdom is 69487 times more populous than Vatican City — 69,487,000 against 1,000 people.

Side by side

Population density

Vatican City is 8.0 times more densely populated than United Kingdom — 2,273 against 285 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 — United Kingdom on the left, Vatican City on the right.
• Different currencies: the British pound and the Euro.

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.

Vatican City

The smallest country in the world by both area and population: about 0.44 km², or roughly an eighth the size of New York's Central Park, with fewer than a thousand residents. Its border with Rome is about 3.4 km long. St Peter's Basilica covers around 15,000 m² and is one of the largest churches ever built.

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.