---
title: "Australia vs Venezuela — area, population, currency"
description: "Australia is 7,741,220 km² with 27,614,411 people; Venezuela is 912,050 km² with 28,516,896. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-venezuela/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Australia vs Venezuela

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

7,741,220 km² vs 912,050 km² · 27,614,411 vs 28,516,896

Australia is 8.5 times larger than Venezuela — 7,741,220 against 912,050 km². Venezuela is slightly more populous, by 3.3% — 28,516,896 against 27,614,411 people.

## Side by side

|  | Australia | Venezuela |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Canberra | Caracas |
| Area | 7,741,220 km² | 912,050 km² |
| Population | 27,614,411 (2025) | 28,516,896 (2025) |
| Density | 3.6 /km² | 31.3 /km² |
| Currency | Australian dollar (AUD) | Venezuelan bolívar soberano (VES) |
| Official languages | English | Spanish |
| Time zones | UTC+08:00, UTC+08:45, UTC+09:30, UTC+10:00, UTC+10:30 | UTC-04:00 |
| Calling code | +61 | +58 |
| Drives on the | left | right |
| Continent | Oceania | South America |
| ISO codes | AU / AUS | VE / VEN |

## Population density

Venezuela is 8.8 times more densely populated than Australia — 31 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, Venezuela on the right.
- Different currencies: the Australian dollar and the Venezuelan bolívar soberano.
- Australia spans 5 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
- Different continents — Oceania and South America.

## 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.

## Venezuela

Angel Falls drops 979 m from the top of Auyán-tepui, the highest uninterrupted waterfall in the world — so high that in the dry season much of the water turns to mist before it lands. The tepuis are flat-topped sandstone table mountains, each an island of species cut off for millions of years. Lake Maracaibo sees more lightning than anywhere else on Earth, around 250 strikes per km² a year.

> 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 Venezuela?

Australia is larger — 7,741,220 km² against 912,050 km².

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

Venezuela, with 28,516,896 against 27,614,411.

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

Australia is UTC+08:00, UTC+08:45, UTC+09:30, UTC+10:00, UTC+10:30 and Venezuela is UTC-04:00. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

## Related pages

- [Australia](https://atoneplace.net/country/australia/)
- [Venezuela](https://atoneplace.net/country/venezuela/)
- [United States vs Venezuela](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/united-states-vs-venezuela/)
- [India vs Venezuela](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/india-vs-venezuela/)
- [China vs Venezuela](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/china-vs-venezuela/)
- [United Kingdom vs Venezuela](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/united-kingdom-vs-venezuela/)
- [Japan vs Venezuela](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/japan-vs-venezuela/)
- [Canada vs Venezuela](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-venezuela/)
- [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/)

## 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]