---
title: "Australia vs Indonesia — area, population, currency"
description: "Australia is 7,741,220 km² with 27,614,411 people; Indonesia is 1,904,569 km² with 285,721,236. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-indonesia/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Australia vs Indonesia

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

7,741,220 km² vs 1,904,569 km² · 27,614,411 vs 285,721,236

Australia is 4.1 times larger than Indonesia — 7,741,220 against 1,904,569 km². Indonesia is 10 times more populous than Australia — 285,721,236 against 27,614,411 people.

## Side by side

|  | Australia | Indonesia |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Canberra | Jakarta |
| Area | 7,741,220 km² | 1,904,569 km² |
| Population | 27,614,411 (2025) | 285,721,236 (2025) |
| Density | 3.6 /km² | 150.0 /km² |
| Currency | Australian dollar (AUD) | Indonesian rupiah (IDR) |
| Official languages | English | Indonesian |
| Time zones | UTC+08:00, UTC+08:45, UTC+09:30, UTC+10:00, UTC+10:30 | UTC+07:00, UTC+08:00, UTC+09:00 |
| Calling code | +61 | +62 |
| Drives on the | left | left |
| Continent | Oceania | Asia |
| ISO codes | AU / AUS | ID / IDN |

## Population density

Indonesia is 42 times more densely populated than Australia — 150 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 Indonesian rupiah.
- 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.

## Indonesia

The largest archipelago in the world: official surveys count more than 17,000 islands, of which around 6,000 are inhabited, spread over 5,100 km of ocean. Indonesia sits on the Pacific Ring of Fire and has about 130 active volcanoes, more than any other country. It also holds more of the world's remaining tropical peatland than anywhere except the Congo basin.

> 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 Indonesia?

Australia is larger — 7,741,220 km² against 1,904,569 km².

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

Indonesia, with 285,721,236 against 27,614,411.

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

Australia is UTC+08:00, UTC+08:45, UTC+09:30, UTC+10:00, UTC+10:30 and Indonesia is UTC+07:00, UTC+08:00, UTC+09:00. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

## Related pages

- [Australia](https://atoneplace.net/country/australia/)
- [Indonesia](https://atoneplace.net/country/indonesia/)
- [India vs Indonesia](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/india-vs-indonesia/)
- [China vs Indonesia](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/china-vs-indonesia/)
- [Canada vs Indonesia](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-indonesia/)
- [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/)

## 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]