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title: "Austria vs Russia — area, population, currency"
description: "Austria is 83,871 km² with 9,208,163 people; Russia is 17,098,242 km² with 143,513,328. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/austria-vs-russia/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Austria vs Russia

**Austria vs Russia: Russia is larger; Russia has more people**

83,871 km² vs 17,098,242 km² · 9,208,163 vs 143,513,328

Russia is 204 times larger than Austria — 17,098,242 against 83,871 km². Russia is 16 times more populous than Austria — 143,513,328 against 9,208,163 people.

## Side by side

|  | Austria | Russia |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Vienna | Moscow |
| Area | 83,871 km² | 17,098,242 km² |
| Population | 9,208,163 (2025) | 143,513,328 (2025) |
| Density | 109.8 /km² | 8.4 /km² |
| Currency | Euro (EUR) | Russian ruble (RUB) |
| Official languages | German | Russian |
| Time zones | UTC+01:00 | UTC+02:00, UTC+03:00, UTC+04:00, UTC+05:00, UTC+06:00, UTC+07:00, UTC+08:00, UTC+09:00, UTC+10:00, UTC+11:00, UTC+12:00 |
| Calling code | +43 | +7 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | Europe | Europe |
| ISO codes | AT / AUT | RU / RUS |

## Population density

Austria is 13 times more densely populated than Russia — 110 against 8 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 Euro and the Russian ruble.
- Russia spans 11 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.

## Austria

The Alps cover roughly sixty percent of the country and around forty percent of it is forest. The Eisriesenwelt near Werfen is the largest ice cave in the world, with about 42 km of passage. Grossglockner reaches 3,798 m.

## Russia

The largest country in the world by land area, close to twice the size of the next one, and it spans eleven time zones. Lake Baikal in Siberia is the deepest lake on Earth at 1,642 m and holds roughly a fifth of the world's unfrozen fresh water — more than all five North American Great Lakes combined. Russia and China each border fourteen countries, more than any other state.

> 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 Austria bigger than Russia?

Russia is larger — 17,098,242 km² against 83,871 km².

### Which has more people, Austria or Russia?

Russia, with 143,513,328 against 9,208,163.

### What is the time difference between Austria and Russia?

Austria is UTC+01:00 and Russia is UTC+02:00, UTC+03:00, UTC+04:00, UTC+05:00, UTC+06:00, UTC+07:00, UTC+08:00, UTC+09:00, UTC+10:00, UTC+11:00, UTC+12:00. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

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- [Russia](https://atoneplace.net/country/russia/)
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## 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]