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title: "Australia vs Singapore — area, population, currency"
description: "Australia is 7,741,220 km² with 27,614,411 people; Singapore is 719 km² with 6,111,175. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-singapore/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Australia vs Singapore

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

7,741,220 km² vs 719 km² · 27,614,411 vs 6,111,175

Australia is 10767 times larger than Singapore — 7,741,220 against 719 km². Australia is 4.5 times more populous than Singapore — 27,614,411 against 6,111,175 people.

## Side by side

|  | Australia | Singapore |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Canberra | Singapore |
| Area | 7,741,220 km² | 719 km² |
| Population | 27,614,411 (2025) | 6,111,175 (2025) |
| Density | 3.6 /km² | 8499.5 /km² |
| Currency | Australian dollar (AUD) | Singapore dollar (SGD) |
| Official languages | English | English, Malay, Tamil, Chinese |
| Time zones | UTC+08:00, UTC+08:45, UTC+09:30, UTC+10:00, UTC+10:30 | UTC+08:00 |
| Calling code | +61 | +65 |
| Drives on the | left | left |
| Continent | Oceania | Asia |
| ISO codes | AU / AUS | SG / SGP |

## Population density

Singapore is 2383 times more densely populated than Australia — 8,500 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 Singapore dollar.
- 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.

## Singapore

A city-state on one main island plus about sixty smaller ones, and it has grown roughly a quarter since 1965 by reclaiming land from the sea. The port is one of the busiest in the world by tonnage. Changi Airport's Jewel holds a 40 m indoor waterfall, the tallest of its kind.

> 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 Singapore?

Australia is larger — 7,741,220 km² against 719 km².

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

Australia, with 27,614,411 against 6,111,175.

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

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

## Related pages

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