Australia vs Dominican Republic

Australia is 159 times larger than Dominican Republic — 7,741,220 against 48,670 km². Australia is 2.4 times more populous than Dominican Republic — 27,614,411 against 11,520,487 people.

Side by side

Population density

Dominican Republic is 66 times more densely populated than Australia — 237 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, Dominican Republic on the right.
• Different currencies: the Australian dollar and the Dominican 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.

Dominican Republic

Shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti. Pico Duarte at 3,098 m is the highest point in the Caribbean, and Lago Enriquillo, at about 40 m below sea level, is the lowest — both in the same country. The lake is saltier than the sea and holds American crocodiles.

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.