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title: "Argentina vs Australia — area, population, currency"
description: "Argentina is 2,780,400 km² with 45,851,378 people; Australia is 7,741,220 km² with 27,614,411. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/argentina-vs-australia/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Argentina vs Australia

**Argentina vs Australia: Australia is larger; Argentina has more people**

2,780,400 km² vs 7,741,220 km² · 45,851,378 vs 27,614,411

Australia is 2.8 times larger than Argentina — 7,741,220 against 2,780,400 km². Argentina is 1.7 times more populous than Australia — 45,851,378 against 27,614,411 people.

## Side by side

|  | Argentina | Australia |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Buenos Aires | Canberra |
| Area | 2,780,400 km² | 7,741,220 km² |
| Population | 45,851,378 (2025) | 27,614,411 (2025) |
| Density | 16.5 /km² | 3.6 /km² |
| Currency | Argentine peso (ARS) | Australian dollar (AUD) |
| Official languages | Spanish | English |
| Time zones | UTC-03:00 | UTC+08:00, UTC+08:45, UTC+09:30, UTC+10:00, UTC+10:30 |
| Calling code | +54 | +61 |
| Drives on the | right | left |
| Continent | South America | Oceania |
| ISO codes | AR / ARG | AU / AUS |

## Population density

Argentina is 4.6 times more densely populated than Australia — 16 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 — Argentina on the right, Australia on the left.
- Different currencies: the Argentine peso and the Australian dollar.
- Australia spans 5 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
- Different continents — South America and Oceania.

## Argentina

The eighth-largest country in the world and the largest Spanish-speaking one. Aconcagua at 6,961 m is the highest mountain outside Asia; the Laguna del Carbón, about 1,000 km away, is 105 m below sea level and the lowest point in the western hemisphere. Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego is the southernmost city of any size on Earth.

## 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.

## Common questions

### Is Argentina bigger than Australia?

Australia is larger — 7,741,220 km² against 2,780,400 km².

### Which has more people, Argentina or Australia?

Argentina, with 45,851,378 against 27,614,411.

### What is the time difference between Argentina and Australia?

Argentina is UTC-03:00 and Australia is UTC+08:00, UTC+08:45, UTC+09:30, UTC+10:00, UTC+10:30. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

## Related pages

- [Argentina](https://atoneplace.net/country/argentina/)
- [Australia](https://atoneplace.net/country/australia/)
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## Sources

- The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency (https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/) [Public domain (US Government)]
- World Bank Open Data — The World Bank (https://data.worldbank.org/) [CC BY 4.0]