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title: "Australia vs Bangladesh — area, population, currency"
description: "Australia is 7,741,220 km² with 27,614,411 people; Bangladesh is 148,460 km² with 175,686,899. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-bangladesh/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Australia vs Bangladesh

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

7,741,220 km² vs 148,460 km² · 27,614,411 vs 175,686,899

Australia is 52 times larger than Bangladesh — 7,741,220 against 148,460 km². Bangladesh is 6.4 times more populous than Australia — 175,686,899 against 27,614,411 people.

## Side by side

|  | Australia | Bangladesh |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Canberra | Dhaka |
| Area | 7,741,220 km² | 148,460 km² |
| Population | 27,614,411 (2025) | 175,686,899 (2025) |
| Density | 3.6 /km² | 1183.4 /km² |
| Currency | Australian dollar (AUD) | Bangladeshi taka (BDT) |
| Official languages | English | Bengali |
| Time zones | UTC+08:00, UTC+08:45, UTC+09:30, UTC+10:00, UTC+10:30 | UTC+06:00 |
| Calling code | +61 | +880 |
| Drives on the | left | left |
| Continent | Oceania | Asia |
| ISO codes | AU / AUS | BD / BGD |

## Population density

Bangladesh is 332 times more densely populated than Australia — 1,183 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

- Different currencies: the Australian dollar and the Bangladeshi taka.
- Australia spans 5 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
- Different continents — Oceania and Asia.

## 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.

## Bangladesh

One of the most densely populated countries on Earth, with over 1,100 people per km² — roughly the population of Russia in an area the size of Wisconsin. Most of it is the delta of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna, the largest river delta in the world, and much of the land is under two metres above sea level. The Sundarbans mangrove forest on the coast is the largest of its kind.

> 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 Bangladesh?

Australia is larger — 7,741,220 km² against 148,460 km².

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

Bangladesh, with 175,686,899 against 27,614,411.

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

Australia is UTC+08:00, UTC+08:45, UTC+09:30, UTC+10:00, UTC+10:30 and Bangladesh is UTC+06:00. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

## Related pages

- [Australia](https://atoneplace.net/country/australia/)
- [Bangladesh](https://atoneplace.net/country/bangladesh/)
- [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]