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title: "Australia vs India — area, population, currency"
description: "Australia is 7,741,220 km² with 27,614,411 people; India is 3,287,263 km² with 1,463,865,525. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-india/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Australia vs India

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

7,741,220 km² vs 3,287,263 km² · 27,614,411 vs 1,463,865,525

Australia is 2.4 times larger than India — 7,741,220 against 3,287,263 km². India is 53 times more populous than Australia — 1,463,865,525 against 27,614,411 people.

## Side by side

|  | Australia | India |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Canberra | New Delhi |
| Area | 7,741,220 km² | 3,287,263 km² |
| Population | 27,614,411 (2025) | 1,463,865,525 (2025) |
| Density | 3.6 /km² | 445.3 /km² |
| Currency | Australian dollar (AUD) | Indian rupee (INR) |
| Official languages | English | Hindi, English |
| Time zones | UTC+08:00, UTC+08:45, UTC+09:30, UTC+10:00, UTC+10:30 | UTC+05:30 |
| Calling code | +61 | +91 |
| Drives on the | left | left |
| Continent | Oceania | Asia |
| ISO codes | AU / AUS | IN / IND |

## Population density

India is 125 times more densely populated than Australia — 445 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 Indian rupee.
- 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.

## India

The most populous country in the world since 2023. The Ganges-Brahmaputra system drains the southern Himalaya into the largest delta on Earth, and Mawsynram and Cherrapunji in Meghalaya are the wettest inhabited places on record, with roughly 11 m of rain a year. Mumbai is the largest individual municipality; the Delhi urban agglomeration, which contains the capital, is larger still at around 33 million.

> 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 India?

Australia is larger — 7,741,220 km² against 3,287,263 km².

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

India, with 1,463,865,525 against 27,614,411.

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

Australia is UTC+08:00, UTC+08:45, UTC+09:30, UTC+10:00, UTC+10:30 and India is UTC+05:30. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

## Related pages

- [Australia](https://atoneplace.net/country/australia/)
- [India](https://atoneplace.net/country/india/)
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## 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]