---
title: "Australia vs Norway — area, population, currency"
description: "Australia is 7,741,220 km² with 27,614,411 people; Norway is 323,802 km² with 5,610,870. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-norway/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Australia vs Norway

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

7,741,220 km² vs 323,802 km² · 27,614,411 vs 5,610,870

Australia is 24 times larger than Norway — 7,741,220 against 323,802 km². Australia is 4.9 times more populous than Norway — 27,614,411 against 5,610,870 people.

## Side by side

|  | Australia | Norway |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Canberra | Oslo |
| Area | 7,741,220 km² | 323,802 km² |
| Population | 27,614,411 (2025) | 5,610,870 (2025) |
| Density | 3.6 /km² | 17.3 /km² |
| Currency | Australian dollar (AUD) | Norwegian krone (NOK) |
| Official languages | English | Norwegian (Bokmål), Norwegian (Nynorsk), Sami |
| Time zones | UTC+08:00, UTC+08:45, UTC+09:30, UTC+10:00, UTC+10:30 | UTC+01:00 |
| Calling code | +61 | +47 |
| Drives on the | left | right |
| Continent | Oceania | Europe |
| ISO codes | AU / AUS | NO / NOR |

## Population density

Norway is 4.9 times more densely populated than Australia — 17 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, Norway on the right.
- Different currencies: the Australian dollar and the Norwegian krone.
- Australia spans 5 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
- Different continents — Oceania and Europe.

## 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.

## Norway

The mainland coastline is about 2,500 km end to end, but roughly 25,000 km following the fjords, and over 100,000 km counting the islands — one of the longest coastlines of any country. Sognefjord runs 205 km inland and is 1,308 m deep. Norway generates almost all its electricity from hydropower.

> 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 Norway?

Australia is larger — 7,741,220 km² against 323,802 km².

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

Australia, with 27,614,411 against 5,610,870.

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

Australia is UTC+08:00, UTC+08:45, UTC+09:30, UTC+10:00, UTC+10:30 and Norway is UTC+01:00. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

## Related pages

- [Australia](https://atoneplace.net/country/australia/)
- [Norway](https://atoneplace.net/country/norway/)
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- [Japan vs Norway](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/japan-vs-norway/)
- [Canada vs Norway](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-norway/)
- [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/)
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- [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]