---
title: "Australia vs Pakistan — area, population, currency"
description: "Australia is 7,741,220 km² with 27,614,411 people; Pakistan is 796,095 km² with 255,219,554. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-pakistan/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Australia vs Pakistan

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

7,741,220 km² vs 796,095 km² · 27,614,411 vs 255,219,554

Australia is 9.7 times larger than Pakistan — 7,741,220 against 796,095 km². Pakistan is 9.2 times more populous than Australia — 255,219,554 against 27,614,411 people.

## Side by side

|  | Australia | Pakistan |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Canberra | Islamabad |
| Area | 7,741,220 km² | 796,095 km² |
| Population | 27,614,411 (2025) | 255,219,554 (2025) |
| Density | 3.6 /km² | 320.6 /km² |
| Currency | Australian dollar (AUD) | Pakistani rupee (PKR) |
| Official languages | English | English, Urdu |
| Time zones | UTC+08:00, UTC+08:45, UTC+09:30, UTC+10:00, UTC+10:30 | UTC+05:00 |
| Calling code | +61 | +92 |
| Drives on the | left | left |
| Continent | Oceania | Asia |
| ISO codes | AU / AUS | PK / PAK |

## Population density

Pakistan is 90 times more densely populated than Australia — 321 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 Pakistani 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.

## Pakistan

Five of the world's fourteen 8,000 m peaks stand in northern Pakistan, including K2 at 8,611 m. Outside the polar regions, this is the most heavily glaciated place on Earth: the Karakoram holds several glaciers over 50 km long, among them Siachen and Baltoro. The Indus runs about 3,200 km from Tibet to the Arabian Sea.

> 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 Pakistan?

Australia is larger — 7,741,220 km² against 796,095 km².

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

Pakistan, with 255,219,554 against 27,614,411.

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

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

## Related pages

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