Australia vs Morocco

Australia is 11 times larger than Morocco — 7,741,220 against 716,550 km². Morocco is 1.4 times more populous than Australia — 38,430,770 against 27,614,411 people.

Side by side

Population density

Morocco is 15 times more densely populated than Australia — 54 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, Morocco on the right.
• Different currencies: the Australian dollar and the Moroccan dirham.
• 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.

Morocco

Toubkal in the High Atlas is 4,167 m, the highest point in North Africa, and holds snow into early summer within sight of the desert. The Atlas ranges cut the country in two, wet Atlantic plains on one side and Sahara on the other.

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.