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title: "Australia vs Spain — area, population, currency"
description: "Australia is 7,741,220 km² with 27,614,411 people; Spain is 505,370 km² with 49,355,143. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-spain/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Australia vs Spain

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

7,741,220 km² vs 505,370 km² · 27,614,411 vs 49,355,143

Australia is 15 times larger than Spain — 7,741,220 against 505,370 km². Spain is 1.8 times more populous than Australia — 49,355,143 against 27,614,411 people.

## Side by side

|  | Australia | Spain |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Canberra | Madrid |
| Area | 7,741,220 km² | 505,370 km² |
| Population | 27,614,411 (2025) | 49,355,143 (2025) |
| Density | 3.6 /km² | 97.7 /km² |
| Currency | Australian dollar (AUD) | Euro (EUR) |
| Official languages | English | Spanish |
| Time zones | UTC+08:00, UTC+08:45, UTC+09:30, UTC+10:00, UTC+10:30 | UTC+00:00, UTC+01:00 |
| Calling code | +61 | +34 |
| Drives on the | left | right |
| Continent | Oceania | Europe |
| ISO codes | AU / AUS | ES / ESP |

## Population density

Spain is 27 times more densely populated than Australia — 98 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, Spain 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.

## Spain

After Switzerland, Spain is the most mountainous country in Europe, with an average elevation around 650 m. The Canary Islands sit off Africa, which is why part of Spain is on a different time zone and why Teide, at 3,715 m, is the country's highest point. Spain has more olive trees than any other country, around 340 million.

> 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 Spain?

Australia is larger — 7,741,220 km² against 505,370 km².

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

Spain, with 49,355,143 against 27,614,411.

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

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

## Related pages

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