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title: "Australia vs Switzerland — area, population, currency"
description: "Australia is 7,741,220 km² with 27,614,411 people; Switzerland is 41,277 km² with 9,092,436. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-switzerland/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Australia vs Switzerland

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

7,741,220 km² vs 41,277 km² · 27,614,411 vs 9,092,436

Australia is 188 times larger than Switzerland — 7,741,220 against 41,277 km². Australia is 3.0 times more populous than Switzerland — 27,614,411 against 9,092,436 people.

## Side by side

|  | Australia | Switzerland |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Canberra | Bern |
| Area | 7,741,220 km² | 41,277 km² |
| Population | 27,614,411 (2025) | 9,092,436 (2025) |
| Density | 3.6 /km² | 220.3 /km² |
| Currency | Australian dollar (AUD) | Swiss franc (CHF) |
| Official languages | English | German, French, Italian, Romansh |
| Time zones | UTC+08:00, UTC+08:45, UTC+09:30, UTC+10:00, UTC+10:30 | UTC+01:00 |
| Calling code | +61 | +41 |
| Drives on the | left | right |
| Continent | Oceania | Europe |
| ISO codes | AU / AUS | CH / CHE |

## Population density

Switzerland is 62 times more densely populated than Australia — 220 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, Switzerland on the right.
- Different currencies: the Australian dollar and the Swiss franc.
- 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.

## Switzerland

The most mountainous country in Europe: the Alps cover about sixty percent of it and it has 48 peaks over 4,000 m. The Gotthard Base Tunnel, 57 km long, is the longest and deepest rail tunnel in the world. Switzerland has four official languages and about 1,500 lakes.

> 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 Switzerland?

Australia is larger — 7,741,220 km² against 41,277 km².

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

Australia, with 27,614,411 against 9,092,436.

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

Australia is UTC+08:00, UTC+08:45, UTC+09:30, UTC+10:00, UTC+10:30 and Switzerland 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/)
- [Switzerland](https://atoneplace.net/country/switzerland/)
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- [Canada vs Switzerland](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-switzerland/)
- [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/)
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- [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]