United Kingdom vs Venezuela

Venezuela is 3.7 times larger than United Kingdom — 912,050 against 243,610 km². United Kingdom is 2.4 times more populous than Venezuela — 69,487,000 against 28,516,896 people.

Side by side

Population density

United Kingdom is 9.1 times more densely populated than Venezuela — 285 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

• They drive on opposite sides — United Kingdom on the left, Venezuela on the right.
• Different currencies: the British pound and the Venezuelan bolívar soberano.
• Different continents — Europe and South America.

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.

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.