---
title: "Australia vs Kenya — area, population, currency"
description: "Australia is 7,741,220 km² with 27,614,411 people; Kenya is 580,367 km² with 57,532,493. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-kenya/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Australia vs Kenya

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

7,741,220 km² vs 580,367 km² · 27,614,411 vs 57,532,493

Australia is 13 times larger than Kenya — 7,741,220 against 580,367 km². Kenya is 2.1 times more populous than Australia — 57,532,493 against 27,614,411 people.

## Side by side

|  | Australia | Kenya |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Canberra | Nairobi |
| Area | 7,741,220 km² | 580,367 km² |
| Population | 27,614,411 (2025) | 57,532,493 (2025) |
| Density | 3.6 /km² | 99.1 /km² |
| Currency | Australian dollar (AUD) | Kenyan shilling (KES) |
| Official languages | English | English, Swahili |
| Time zones | UTC+08:00, UTC+08:45, UTC+09:30, UTC+10:00, UTC+10:30 | UTC+03:00 |
| Calling code | +61 | +254 |
| Drives on the | left | left |
| Continent | Oceania | Africa |
| ISO codes | AU / AUS | KE / KEN |

## Population density

Kenya is 28 times more densely populated than Australia — 99 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 Kenyan shilling.
- 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.

## Kenya

The Great Rift Valley runs the length of the country, and the equator crosses it just north of Nairobi. Mount Kenya reaches 5,199 m and carries glaciers within 20 km of the equator. Lake Turkana in the north is the largest permanent desert lake in the world.

> 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 Kenya?

Australia is larger — 7,741,220 km² against 580,367 km².

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

Kenya, with 57,532,493 against 27,614,411.

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

Australia is UTC+08:00, UTC+08:45, UTC+09:30, UTC+10:00, UTC+10:30 and Kenya is UTC+03:00. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

## Related pages

- [Australia](https://atoneplace.net/country/australia/)
- [Kenya](https://atoneplace.net/country/kenya/)
- [India vs Kenya](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/india-vs-kenya/)
- [China vs Kenya](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/china-vs-kenya/)
- [Japan vs Kenya](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/japan-vs-kenya/)
- [Canada vs Kenya](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-kenya/)
- [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/)

## 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]