Australia vs Colombia

Australia is 6.8 times larger than Colombia — 7,741,220 against 1,138,910 km². Colombia is 1.9 times more populous than Australia — 53,425,635 against 27,614,411 people.

Side by side

Population density

Colombia is 13 times more densely populated than Australia — 47 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, Colombia on the right.
• Different currencies: the Australian dollar and the Colombian peso.
• 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.

Colombia

The only South American country with coastline on both the Pacific and the Caribbean. It has more bird species than any other country, around 1,900, and more orchid species too. The Andes split into three separate ranges here, and the Chocó on the Pacific side is among the wettest places on Earth, with over 10 m of rain a year in places.

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.