---
title: "Australia vs Nepal — area, population, currency"
description: "Australia is 7,741,220 km² with 27,614,411 people; Nepal is 147,181 km² with 29,618,118. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-nepal/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Australia vs Nepal

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

7,741,220 km² vs 147,181 km² · 27,614,411 vs 29,618,118

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

|  | Australia | Nepal |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Canberra | Kathmandu |
| Area | 7,741,220 km² | 147,181 km² |
| Population | 27,614,411 (2025) | 29,618,118 (2025) |
| Density | 3.6 /km² | 201.2 /km² |
| Currency | Australian dollar (AUD) | Nepalese rupee (NPR) |
| Official languages | English | Nepali |
| Time zones | UTC+08:00, UTC+08:45, UTC+09:30, UTC+10:00, UTC+10:30 | UTC+05:45 |
| Calling code | +61 | +977 |
| Drives on the | left | left |
| Continent | Oceania | Asia |
| ISO codes | AU / AUS | NP / NPL |

## 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.

## Common questions

### Is Australia bigger than Nepal?

Australia is larger — 7,741,220 km² against 147,181 km².

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

Nepal, with 29,618,118 against 27,614,411.

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

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

## Related pages

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