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title: "Australia vs France — area, population, currency"
description: "Australia is 7,741,220 km² with 27,614,411 people; France is 643,801 km² with 68,720,337. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-france/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Australia vs France

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

7,741,220 km² vs 643,801 km² · 27,614,411 vs 68,720,337

Australia is 12 times larger than France — 7,741,220 against 643,801 km². France is 2.5 times more populous than Australia — 68,720,337 against 27,614,411 people.

## Side by side

|  | Australia | France |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Canberra | Paris |
| Area | 7,741,220 km² | 643,801 km² |
| Population | 27,614,411 (2025) | 68,720,337 (2025) |
| Density | 3.6 /km² | 106.7 /km² |
| Currency | Australian dollar (AUD) | Euro (EUR) |
| Official languages | English | French |
| Time zones | UTC+08:00, UTC+08:45, UTC+09:30, UTC+10:00, UTC+10:30 | UTC+01:00 |
| Calling code | +61 | +33 |
| Drives on the | left | right |
| Continent | Oceania | Europe |
| ISO codes | AU / AUS | FR / FRA |

## Population density

France is 30 times more densely populated than Australia — 107 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, France on the right.
- Different currencies: the Australian dollar and the Euro.
- 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.

## France

Mont Blanc on the Italian border is 4,806 m, the highest point in western Europe. Counting its overseas departments, France spans twelve time zones — more than any other country — and its exclusive economic zone is the second largest in the world. The Gouffre Mirolda and other Alpine systems make it one of the great caving countries.

> 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 France?

Australia is larger — 7,741,220 km² against 643,801 km².

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

France, with 68,720,337 against 27,614,411.

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

Australia is UTC+08:00, UTC+08:45, UTC+09:30, UTC+10:00, UTC+10:30 and France 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/)
- [France](https://atoneplace.net/country/france/)
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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/)
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- [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/)
- [Australia vs Russia](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-russia/)

## 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]