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title: "Australia vs Portugal — area, population, currency"
description: "Australia is 7,741,220 km² with 27,614,411 people; Portugal is 92,090 km² with 10,804,871. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-portugal/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Australia vs Portugal

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

7,741,220 km² vs 92,090 km² · 27,614,411 vs 10,804,871

Australia is 84 times larger than Portugal — 7,741,220 against 92,090 km². Australia is 2.6 times more populous than Portugal — 27,614,411 against 10,804,871 people.

## Side by side

|  | Australia | Portugal |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Canberra | Lisbon |
| Area | 7,741,220 km² | 92,090 km² |
| Population | 27,614,411 (2025) | 10,804,871 (2025) |
| Density | 3.6 /km² | 117.3 /km² |
| Currency | Australian dollar (AUD) | Euro (EUR) |
| Official languages | English | Portuguese |
| Time zones | UTC+08:00, UTC+08:45, UTC+09:30, UTC+10:00, UTC+10:30 | UTC-01:00, UTC+00:00 |
| Calling code | +61 | +351 |
| Drives on the | left | right |
| Continent | Oceania | Europe |
| ISO codes | AU / AUS | PT / PRT |

## Population density

Portugal is 33 times more densely populated than Australia — 117 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, Portugal on the right.
- Different currencies: the Australian dollar and the Euro.
- 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.

## Portugal

Mainland Portugal plus the Azores and Madeira, which push its exclusive economic zone to one of the largest in Europe. Cabo da Roca is the westernmost point of mainland Europe. Portugal produces around half the world's cork, most of it from the montado oak landscapes of the Alentejo.

> 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 Portugal?

Australia is larger — 7,741,220 km² against 92,090 km².

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

Australia, with 27,614,411 against 10,804,871.

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

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

## Related pages

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