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title: "Australia vs Austria — area, population, currency"
description: "Australia is 7,741,220 km² with 27,614,411 people; Austria is 83,871 km² with 9,208,163. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-austria/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Australia vs Austria

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

7,741,220 km² vs 83,871 km² · 27,614,411 vs 9,208,163

Australia is 92 times larger than Austria — 7,741,220 against 83,871 km². Australia is 3.0 times more populous than Austria — 27,614,411 against 9,208,163 people.

## Side by side

|  | Australia | Austria |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Canberra | Vienna |
| Area | 7,741,220 km² | 83,871 km² |
| Population | 27,614,411 (2025) | 9,208,163 (2025) |
| Density | 3.6 /km² | 109.8 /km² |
| Currency | Australian dollar (AUD) | Euro (EUR) |
| Official languages | English | German |
| Time zones | UTC+08:00, UTC+08:45, UTC+09:30, UTC+10:00, UTC+10:30 | UTC+01:00 |
| Calling code | +61 | +43 |
| Drives on the | left | right |
| Continent | Oceania | Europe |
| ISO codes | AU / AUS | AT / AUT |

## Population density

Austria is 31 times more densely populated than Australia — 110 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 — Australia on the left, Austria on the right.
- Different currencies: the Australian dollar and the Euro.
- Australia spans 5 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
- Different continents — Oceania and Europe.

## 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.

## Austria

The Alps cover roughly sixty percent of the country and around forty percent of it is forest. The Eisriesenwelt near Werfen is the largest ice cave in the world, with about 42 km of passage. Grossglockner reaches 3,798 m.

> 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 Australia bigger than Austria?

Australia is larger — 7,741,220 km² against 83,871 km².

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

Australia, with 27,614,411 against 9,208,163.

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

Australia is UTC+08:00, UTC+08:45, UTC+09:30, UTC+10:00, UTC+10:30 and Austria is UTC+01:00. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

## Related pages

- [Australia](https://atoneplace.net/country/australia/)
- [Austria](https://atoneplace.net/country/austria/)
- [Australia vs United States](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-united-states/)
- [Australia vs India](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-india/)
- [Australia vs China](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-china/)
- [Australia vs United Kingdom](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-united-kingdom/)
- [Australia vs Japan](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-japan/)
- [Australia vs Canada](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-canada/)
- [Australia vs New Zealand](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-new-zealand/)
- [Australia vs France](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-france/)
- [Australia vs Germany](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-germany/)
- [Australia vs Italy](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-italy/)
- [Australia vs Russia](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-russia/)
- [Australia vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-mexico/)

## 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]