---
title: "Australia vs Panama — area, population, currency"
description: "Australia is 7,741,220 km² with 27,614,411 people; Panama is 75,420 km² with 4,571,189. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-panama/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Australia vs Panama

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

7,741,220 km² vs 75,420 km² · 27,614,411 vs 4,571,189

Australia is 103 times larger than Panama — 7,741,220 against 75,420 km². Australia is 6.0 times more populous than Panama — 27,614,411 against 4,571,189 people.

## Side by side

|  | Australia | Panama |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Canberra | Panama City |
| Area | 7,741,220 km² | 75,420 km² |
| Population | 27,614,411 (2025) | 4,571,189 (2025) |
| Density | 3.6 /km² | 60.6 /km² |
| Currency | Australian dollar (AUD) | Panamanian balboa (PAB) |
| Official languages | English | Spanish |
| Time zones | UTC+08:00, UTC+08:45, UTC+09:30, UTC+10:00, UTC+10:30 | UTC-05:00 |
| Calling code | +61 | +507 |
| Drives on the | left | right |
| Continent | Oceania | North America |
| ISO codes | AU / AUS | PA / PAN |

## Population density

Panama is 17 times more densely populated than Australia — 61 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, Panama on the right.
- Different currencies: the Australian dollar and the Panamanian balboa.
- Australia spans 5 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
- Different continents — Oceania and North America.

## 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.

## Panama

The canal is 82 km long and lifts ships 26 m up to Gatún Lake and back down, using gravity-fed fresh water rather than pumps. Because the isthmus curves, a ship going from the Atlantic to the Pacific travels roughly south-east. The Darién Gap is the only break in the 30,000 km Pan-American Highway.

> 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 Panama?

Australia is larger — 7,741,220 km² against 75,420 km².

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

Australia, with 27,614,411 against 4,571,189.

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

Australia is UTC+08:00, UTC+08:45, UTC+09:30, UTC+10:00, UTC+10:30 and Panama 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/)
- [Panama](https://atoneplace.net/country/panama/)
- [India vs Panama](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/india-vs-panama/)
- [China vs Panama](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/china-vs-panama/)
- [Japan vs Panama](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/japan-vs-panama/)
- [Canada vs Panama](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-panama/)
- [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]