Australia vs Egypt

Australia is 7.7 times larger than Egypt — 7,741,220 against 1,001,450 km². Egypt is 4.3 times more populous than Australia — 118,365,995 against 27,614,411 people.

Side by side

Population density

Egypt is 33 times more densely populated than Australia — 118 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, Egypt on the right.
• Different currencies: the Australian dollar and the Egyptian pound.
• Australia spans 5 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
• Different continents — Oceania and Africa.

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.

Egypt

Almost the entire population lives on the Nile valley and delta, which is only a few percent of the country's land area; the rest is desert. The Nile runs about 6,650 km from its headwaters to the Mediterranean. The Suez Canal, 193 km long, has no locks because the Mediterranean and Red Sea are close to the same level.

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.