---
title: "Australia vs Denmark — area, population, currency"
description: "Australia is 7,741,220 km² with 27,614,411 people; Denmark is 43,094 km² with 6,009,169. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-denmark/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Australia vs Denmark

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

7,741,220 km² vs 43,094 km² · 27,614,411 vs 6,009,169

Australia is 180 times larger than Denmark — 7,741,220 against 43,094 km². Australia is 4.6 times more populous than Denmark — 27,614,411 against 6,009,169 people.

## Side by side

|  | Australia | Denmark |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Canberra | Copenhagen |
| Area | 7,741,220 km² | 43,094 km² |
| Population | 27,614,411 (2025) | 6,009,169 (2025) |
| Density | 3.6 /km² | 139.4 /km² |
| Currency | Australian dollar (AUD) | Danish krone (DKK) |
| Official languages | English | Danish |
| Time zones | UTC+08:00, UTC+08:45, UTC+09:30, UTC+10:00, UTC+10:30 | UTC+01:00 |
| Calling code | +61 | +45 |
| Drives on the | left | right |
| Continent | Oceania | Europe |
| ISO codes | AU / AUS | DK / DNK |

## Population density

Denmark is 39 times more densely populated than Australia — 139 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, Denmark on the right.
- Different currencies: the Australian dollar and the Danish krone.
- Australia spans 5 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
- Different continents — Oceania and Europe.

## 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.

## Denmark

Denmark proper is a peninsula plus 406 islands, about 70 of them inhabited, and no point is more than 52 km from the sea. The highest natural point is Møllehøj at 170 m. Including Greenland and the Faroe Islands, the Kingdom of Denmark spans more than 2.2 million km².

> 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 Denmark?

Australia is larger — 7,741,220 km² against 43,094 km².

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

Australia, with 27,614,411 against 6,009,169.

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

Australia is UTC+08:00, UTC+08:45, UTC+09:30, UTC+10:00, UTC+10:30 and Denmark is UTC+01:00. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

## Related pages

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