---
title: "Australia vs South Korea — area, population, currency"
description: "Australia is 7,741,220 km² with 27,614,411 people; South Korea is 99,720 km² with 51,684,564. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-south-korea/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Australia vs South Korea

**Australia vs South Korea: Australia is larger; South Korea has more people**

7,741,220 km² vs 99,720 km² · 27,614,411 vs 51,684,564

Australia is 78 times larger than South Korea — 7,741,220 against 99,720 km². South Korea is 1.9 times more populous than Australia — 51,684,564 against 27,614,411 people.

## Side by side

|  | Australia | South Korea |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Canberra | Seoul |
| Area | 7,741,220 km² | 99,720 km² |
| Population | 27,614,411 (2025) | 51,684,564 (2025) |
| Density | 3.6 /km² | 518.3 /km² |
| Currency | Australian dollar (AUD) | South Korean won (KRW) |
| Official languages | English | Korean |
| Time zones | UTC+08:00, UTC+08:45, UTC+09:30, UTC+10:00, UTC+10:30 | UTC+09:00 |
| Calling code | +61 | +82 |
| Drives on the | left | right |
| Continent | Oceania | Asia |
| ISO codes | AU / AUS | KR / KOR |

## Population density

South Korea is 145 times more densely populated than Australia — 518 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, South Korea on the right.
- Different currencies: the Australian dollar and the South Korean won.
- 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.

## South Korea

About seventy percent mountain, so the population is packed into the valleys and coastal plains; the Seoul metropolitan area holds roughly half the country. Jeju Island is a shield volcano whose lava tube system is among the finest in the world. South Korea has the fastest average internet connections of any large country.

> 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 South Korea?

Australia is larger — 7,741,220 km² against 99,720 km².

### Which has more people, Australia or South Korea?

South Korea, with 51,684,564 against 27,614,411.

### What is the time difference between Australia and South Korea?

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

## Related pages

- [Australia](https://atoneplace.net/country/australia/)
- [South Korea](https://atoneplace.net/country/south-korea/)
- [India vs South Korea](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/india-vs-south-korea/)
- [China vs South Korea](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/china-vs-south-korea/)
- [Japan vs South Korea](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/japan-vs-south-korea/)
- [Canada vs South Korea](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-south-korea/)
- [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]