---
title: "Australia vs Egypt — area, population, currency"
description: "Australia is 7,741,220 km² with 27,614,411 people; Egypt is 1,001,450 km² with 118,365,995. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-egypt/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Australia vs Egypt

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

7,741,220 km² vs 1,001,450 km² · 27,614,411 vs 118,365,995

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

|  | Australia | Egypt |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Canberra | Cairo |
| Area | 7,741,220 km² | 1,001,450 km² |
| Population | 27,614,411 (2025) | 118,365,995 (2025) |
| Density | 3.6 /km² | 118.2 /km² |
| Currency | Australian dollar (AUD) | Egyptian pound (EGP) |
| Official languages | English | Arabic |
| Time zones | UTC+08:00, UTC+08:45, UTC+09:30, UTC+10:00, UTC+10:30 | UTC+02:00 |
| Calling code | +61 | +20 |
| Drives on the | left | right |
| Continent | Oceania | Africa |
| ISO codes | AU / AUS | EG / EGY |

## 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.

## Common questions

### Is Australia bigger than Egypt?

Australia is larger — 7,741,220 km² against 1,001,450 km².

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

Egypt, with 118,365,995 against 27,614,411.

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

Australia is UTC+08:00, UTC+08:45, UTC+09:30, UTC+10:00, UTC+10:30 and Egypt is UTC+02:00. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

## Related pages

- [Australia](https://atoneplace.net/country/australia/)
- [Egypt](https://atoneplace.net/country/egypt/)
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- [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/)
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- [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]