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title: "Australia vs Sweden — area, population, currency"
description: "Australia is 7,741,220 km² with 27,614,411 people; Sweden is 450,295 km² with 10,596,620. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-sweden/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Australia vs Sweden

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

7,741,220 km² vs 450,295 km² · 27,614,411 vs 10,596,620

Australia is 17 times larger than Sweden — 7,741,220 against 450,295 km². Australia is 2.6 times more populous than Sweden — 27,614,411 against 10,596,620 people.

## Side by side

|  | Australia | Sweden |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Canberra | Stockholm |
| Area | 7,741,220 km² | 450,295 km² |
| Population | 27,614,411 (2025) | 10,596,620 (2025) |
| Density | 3.6 /km² | 23.5 /km² |
| Currency | Australian dollar (AUD) | Swedish krona (SEK) |
| Official languages | English | Swedish |
| Time zones | UTC+08:00, UTC+08:45, UTC+09:30, UTC+10:00, UTC+10:30 | UTC+01:00 |
| Calling code | +61 | +46 |
| Drives on the | left | right |
| Continent | Oceania | Europe |
| ISO codes | AU / AUS | SE / SWE |

## Population density

Sweden is 6.6 times more densely populated than Australia — 24 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, Sweden on the right.
- Different currencies: the Australian dollar and the Swedish krona.
- 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.

## Sweden

Sweden has roughly 267,000 islands, more than any other country, though only a small fraction are inhabited. Around seventy percent of it is forest, and a seventh lies above the Arctic Circle. Its right of public access lets anyone walk and camp on most uncultivated land.

> 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 Sweden?

Australia is larger — 7,741,220 km² against 450,295 km².

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

Australia, with 27,614,411 against 10,596,620.

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

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

## Related pages

- [Australia](https://atoneplace.net/country/australia/)
- [Sweden](https://atoneplace.net/country/sweden/)
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- [China vs Sweden](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/china-vs-sweden/)
- [Japan vs Sweden](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/japan-vs-sweden/)
- [Canada vs Sweden](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-sweden/)
- [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]