United States vs Vatican City

United States is 22348902 times larger than Vatican City — 9,833,517 against 0 km². United States is 341785 times more populous than Vatican City — 341,784,857 against 1,000 people.

Side by side

Population density

Vatican City is 65 times more densely populated than United States — 2,273 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 United States dollar and the Euro.
• United States spans 6 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
• Different continents — North America and Europe.

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.

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.