---
title: "Australia vs Cuba — area, population, currency"
description: "Australia is 7,741,220 km² with 27,614,411 people; Cuba is 110,860 km² with 10,937,203. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-cuba/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Australia vs Cuba

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

7,741,220 km² vs 110,860 km² · 27,614,411 vs 10,937,203

Australia is 70 times larger than Cuba — 7,741,220 against 110,860 km². Australia is 2.5 times more populous than Cuba — 27,614,411 against 10,937,203 people.

## Side by side

|  | Australia | Cuba |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Canberra | Havana |
| Area | 7,741,220 km² | 110,860 km² |
| Population | 27,614,411 (2025) | 10,937,203 (2025) |
| Density | 3.6 /km² | 98.7 /km² |
| Currency | Australian dollar (AUD) | Cuban peso (CUP) |
| Official languages | English | Spanish |
| Time zones | UTC+08:00, UTC+08:45, UTC+09:30, UTC+10:00, UTC+10:30 | UTC-05:00 |
| Calling code | +61 | +53 |
| Drives on the | left | right |
| Continent | Oceania | North America |
| ISO codes | AU / AUS | CU / CUB |

## Population density

Cuba is 28 times more densely populated than Australia — 99 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, Cuba on the right.
- Different currencies: the Australian dollar and the Cuban peso.
- Australia spans 5 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.

## Cuba

The largest island in the Caribbean, roughly 1,250 km long but as little as 31 km wide. The Viñales valley in the west is a karst landscape of mogotes — steep limestone humps left standing when the rock around them dissolved. The bee hummingbird, the smallest bird in the world at about 5 cm, lives only here.

> 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 Cuba?

Australia is larger — 7,741,220 km² against 110,860 km².

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

Australia, with 27,614,411 against 10,937,203.

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

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

## Related pages

- [Australia](https://atoneplace.net/country/australia/)
- [Cuba](https://atoneplace.net/country/cuba/)
- [China vs Cuba](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/china-vs-cuba/)
- [Canada vs Cuba](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-cuba/)
- [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/)

## 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]