Australia vs Nepal

Australia is 53 times larger than Nepal — 7,741,220 against 147,181 km². Nepal is slightly more populous, by 7.3% — 29,618,118 against 27,614,411 people.

Side by side

Population density

Nepal is 56 times more densely populated than Australia — 201 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 Nepalese 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.

Nepal

Eight of the world's fourteen peaks above 8,000 m are here, including Everest at 8,849 m on the Chinese border. Elevation runs from 59 m in the southern plains to the top of the world in about 200 km. Nepal keeps its clock 5 hours 45 minutes ahead of UTC — the only country whose national standard time sits on a 45-minute offset.

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.