Algeria vs Australia

Australia is 3.3 times larger than Algeria — 7,741,220 against 2,381,740 km². Algeria is 1.7 times more populous than Australia — 47,435,312 against 27,614,411 people.

Side by side

Population density

Algeria is 5.6 times more densely populated than Australia — 20 against 4 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 — Algeria on the right, Australia on the left.
• Different currencies: the Algerian dinar and the Australian dollar.
• Australia spans 5 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
• Different continents — Africa and Oceania.

Algeria

The largest country in Africa, and the tenth largest in the world. About four-fifths of it is Sahara, so nearly the whole population lives on the Mediterranean strip in the north. The Hoggar mountains in the deep south rise above 2,900 m and get frost.

Australia

The sixth-largest country in the world and the only one that covers an entire continent. The Great Barrier Reef runs about 2,300 km and is the largest structure made by living organisms on Earth, visible from orbit. Around eighty percent of its mammals, reptiles and flowering plants exist nowhere else. Melbourne and Sydney are within roughly a hundred thousand people of each other, and which counts as the largest city depends on where the boundary is drawn.

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.