--- title: "Australia vs Russia — area, population, currency" description: "Australia is 7,741,220 km² with 27,614,411 people; Russia is 17,098,242 km² with 143,513,328. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side." url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-russia/ site: "At One Place" --- # Australia vs Russia **Australia vs Russia: Russia is larger; Russia has more people** 7,741,220 km² vs 17,098,242 km² · 27,614,411 vs 143,513,328 Russia is 2.2 times larger than Australia — 17,098,242 against 7,741,220 km². Russia is 5.2 times more populous than Australia — 143,513,328 against 27,614,411 people. ## Side by side | | Australia | Russia | | --- | --- | --- | | Capital | Canberra | Moscow | | Area | 7,741,220 km² | 17,098,242 km² | | Population | 27,614,411 (2025) | 143,513,328 (2025) | | Density | 3.6 /km² | 8.4 /km² | | Currency | Australian dollar (AUD) | Russian ruble (RUB) | | Official languages | English | Russian | | Time zones | UTC+08:00, UTC+08:45, UTC+09:30, UTC+10:00, UTC+10:30 | UTC+02:00, UTC+03:00, UTC+04:00, UTC+05:00, UTC+06:00, UTC+07:00, UTC+08:00, UTC+09:00, UTC+10:00, UTC+11:00, UTC+12:00 | | Calling code | +61 | +7 | | Drives on the | left | right | | Continent | Oceania | Europe | | ISO codes | AU / AUS | RU / RUS | ## Population density Russia is 2.4 times more densely populated than Australia — 8 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, Russia on the right. - Different currencies: the Australian dollar and the Russian ruble. - Russia spans 11 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. ## Russia The largest country in the world by land area, close to twice the size of the next one, and it spans eleven time zones. Lake Baikal in Siberia is the deepest lake on Earth at 1,642 m and holds roughly a fifth of the world's unfrozen fresh water — more than all five North American Great Lakes combined. Russia and China each border fourteen countries, more than any other state. > 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 Russia? Russia is larger — 17,098,242 km² against 7,741,220 km². ### Which has more people, Australia or Russia? Russia, with 143,513,328 against 27,614,411. ### What is the time difference between Australia and Russia? Australia is UTC+08:00, UTC+08:45, UTC+09:30, UTC+10:00, UTC+10:30 and Russia is UTC+02:00, UTC+03:00, UTC+04:00, UTC+05:00, UTC+06:00, UTC+07:00, UTC+08:00, UTC+09:00, UTC+10:00, UTC+11:00, UTC+12:00. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it. ## Related pages - [Australia](https://atoneplace.net/country/australia/) - [Russia](https://atoneplace.net/country/russia/) - [India vs Russia](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/india-vs-russia/) - [China vs Russia](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/china-vs-russia/) - [Japan vs Russia](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/japan-vs-russia/) - [Canada vs Russia](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-russia/) - [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]