Australia vs Brazil

Brazil is 1.1 times larger than Australia — 8,515,770 against 7,741,220 km². Brazil is 7.7 times more populous than Australia — 212,812,405 against 27,614,411 people.

Side by side

Population density

Brazil is 7.0 times more densely populated than Australia — 25 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, Brazil on the right.
• Different currencies: the Australian dollar and the Brazilian real.
• Australia spans 5 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
• Different continents — Oceania and South America.

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.

Brazil

The fifth-largest country in the world and the largest in the southern hemisphere. It holds about sixty percent of the Amazon rainforest, and the Amazon River discharges roughly a fifth of all the fresh water that reaches the world's oceans — more than the next seven rivers combined. Brazil borders every South American country except Chile and Ecuador.

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.