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title: "Australia vs Hong Kong — area, population, currency"
description: "Australia is 7,741,220 km² with 27,614,411 people; Hong Kong is 1,108 km² with 7,498,900. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-hong-kong/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Australia vs Hong Kong

**Australia vs Hong Kong: Australia is larger; Australia has more people**

7,741,220 km² vs 1,108 km² · 27,614,411 vs 7,498,900

Australia is 6987 times larger than Hong Kong — 7,741,220 against 1,108 km². Australia is 3.7 times more populous than Hong Kong — 27,614,411 against 7,498,900 people.

## Side by side

|  | Australia | Hong Kong |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Canberra | Hong Kong |
| Area | 7,741,220 km² | 1,108 km² |
| Population | 27,614,411 (2025) | 7,498,900 (2025) |
| Density | 3.6 /km² | 6768.0 /km² |
| Currency | Australian dollar (AUD) | Hong Kong dollar (HKD) |
| Official languages | English | English, Chinese |
| Time zones | UTC+08:00, UTC+08:45, UTC+09:30, UTC+10:00, UTC+10:30 | UTC+08:00 |
| Calling code | +61 | +852 |
| Drives on the | left | left |
| Continent | Oceania | Asia |
| ISO codes | AU / AUS | HK / HKG |

## Population density

Hong Kong is 1897 times more densely populated than Australia — 6,768 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

- Different currencies: the Australian dollar and the Hong Kong dollar.
- Australia spans 5 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
- Different continents — Oceania and Asia.

## 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.

## Hong Kong

One of the most densely populated places on Earth, yet roughly three-quarters of its land is undeveloped countryside and about forty percent is protected country park. It has 263 islands and around 730 km of coastline. There are more skyscrapers over 150 m here than in any other city.

> 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 Hong Kong?

Australia is larger — 7,741,220 km² against 1,108 km².

### Which has more people, Australia or Hong Kong?

Australia, with 27,614,411 against 7,498,900.

### What is the time difference between Australia and Hong Kong?

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

## Related pages

- [Australia](https://atoneplace.net/country/australia/)
- [Hong Kong](https://atoneplace.net/country/hong-kong/)
- [China vs Hong Kong](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/china-vs-hong-kong/)
- [Canada vs Hong Kong](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-hong-kong/)
- [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]