Australia vs Canada

Canada is 1.3 times larger than Australia — 9,984,670 against 7,741,220 km². Canada is 1.5 times more populous than Australia — 41,651,653 against 27,614,411 people.

Side by side

Population density

Canada is 1.2 times more densely populated than Australia — 4 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, Canada on the right.
• Different currencies: the Australian dollar and the Canadian dollar.
• Canada spans 6 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
• Different continents — Oceania and North 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.

Canada

The second-largest country in the world by total area, and the longest coastline of any — about 202,000 km, more than the rest of the world put together. Canada holds more lake area than every other country combined, and something over two million lakes. Its border with the United States is the longest between any two countries at 8,891 km.

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.