---
title: "Australia vs Peru — area, population, currency"
description: "Australia is 7,741,220 km² with 27,614,411 people; Peru is 1,285,216 km² with 34,576,665. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-peru/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Australia vs Peru

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

7,741,220 km² vs 1,285,216 km² · 27,614,411 vs 34,576,665

Australia is 6.0 times larger than Peru — 7,741,220 against 1,285,216 km². Peru is 1.3 times more populous than Australia — 34,576,665 against 27,614,411 people.

## Side by side

|  | Australia | Peru |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Canberra | Lima |
| Area | 7,741,220 km² | 1,285,216 km² |
| Population | 27,614,411 (2025) | 34,576,665 (2025) |
| Density | 3.6 /km² | 26.9 /km² |
| Currency | Australian dollar (AUD) | Peruvian sol (PEN) |
| Official languages | English | Aymara, Quechua, Spanish |
| Time zones | UTC+08:00, UTC+08:45, UTC+09:30, UTC+10:00, UTC+10:30 | UTC-05:00 |
| Calling code | +61 | +51 |
| Drives on the | left | right |
| Continent | Oceania | South America |
| ISO codes | AU / AUS | PE / PER |

## Population density

Peru is 7.5 times more densely populated than Australia — 27 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, Peru on the right.
- Different currencies: the Australian dollar and the Peruvian sol.
- Australia spans 5 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
- Different continents — Oceania and South 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.

## Peru

Peru holds the source of the Amazon and about sixty percent of its territory is Amazon basin, but most people live on the dry Pacific coast. Cotahuasi and Colca are among the deepest canyons in the world, both over 3,000 m. The Nazca lines, drawn on the coastal desert between about 500 BC and AD 500, cover some 450 km² and are only legible from the air or the surrounding hills.

> 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 Peru?

Australia is larger — 7,741,220 km² against 1,285,216 km².

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

Peru, with 34,576,665 against 27,614,411.

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

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