---
title: "Australia vs Thailand — area, population, currency"
description: "Australia is 7,741,220 km² with 27,614,411 people; Thailand is 513,120 km² with 71,619,863. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-thailand/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Australia vs Thailand

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

7,741,220 km² vs 513,120 km² · 27,614,411 vs 71,619,863

Australia is 15 times larger than Thailand — 7,741,220 against 513,120 km². Thailand is 2.6 times more populous than Australia — 71,619,863 against 27,614,411 people.

## Side by side

|  | Australia | Thailand |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Canberra | Bangkok |
| Area | 7,741,220 km² | 513,120 km² |
| Population | 27,614,411 (2025) | 71,619,863 (2025) |
| Density | 3.6 /km² | 139.6 /km² |
| Currency | Australian dollar (AUD) | Thai baht (THB) |
| Official languages | English | Thai |
| Time zones | UTC+08:00, UTC+08:45, UTC+09:30, UTC+10:00, UTC+10:30 | UTC+07:00 |
| Calling code | +61 | +66 |
| Drives on the | left | left |
| Continent | Oceania | Asia |
| ISO codes | AU / AUS | TH / THA |

## Population density

Thailand is 39 times more densely populated than Australia — 140 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 Thai baht.
- 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.

## Thailand

Roughly 3,200 km of coastline on two separate seas, the Andaman and the Gulf of Thailand, joined only by the narrow Kra Isthmus. The country's full ceremonial name for Bangkok, Krung Thep Mahanakhon and the rest, is the longest place name in the world at 168 letters in transliteration.

> 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 Thailand?

Australia is larger — 7,741,220 km² against 513,120 km².

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

Thailand, with 71,619,863 against 27,614,411.

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

Australia is UTC+08:00, UTC+08:45, UTC+09:30, UTC+10:00, UTC+10:30 and Thailand is UTC+07:00. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

## Related pages

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