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title: "Australia vs Brazil — area, population, currency"
description: "Australia is 7,741,220 km² with 27,614,411 people; Brazil is 8,515,770 km² with 212,812,405. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-brazil/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Australia vs Brazil

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

7,741,220 km² vs 8,515,770 km² · 27,614,411 vs 212,812,405

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

|  | Australia | Brazil |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Canberra | Brasília |
| Area | 7,741,220 km² | 8,515,770 km² |
| Population | 27,614,411 (2025) | 212,812,405 (2025) |
| Density | 3.6 /km² | 25.0 /km² |
| Currency | Australian dollar (AUD) | Brazilian real (BRL) |
| Official languages | English | Portuguese |
| Time zones | UTC+08:00, UTC+08:45, UTC+09:30, UTC+10:00, UTC+10:30 | UTC-05:00, UTC-04:00, UTC-03:00, UTC-02:00 |
| Calling code | +61 | +55 |
| Drives on the | left | right |
| Continent | Oceania | South America |
| ISO codes | AU / AUS | BR / BRA |

## 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.

## Common questions

### Is Australia bigger than Brazil?

Brazil is larger — 8,515,770 km² against 7,741,220 km².

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

Brazil, with 212,812,405 against 27,614,411.

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

Australia is UTC+08:00, UTC+08:45, UTC+09:30, UTC+10:00, UTC+10:30 and Brazil is UTC-05:00, UTC-04:00, UTC-03:00, UTC-02:00. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

## Related pages

- [Australia](https://atoneplace.net/country/australia/)
- [Brazil](https://atoneplace.net/country/brazil/)
- [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]