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True size · Australia

How big is Australia?

Australia measures 7,706,123 km² on this map. It is the sixth-largest country here, 3.6 times Greenland and 793,403 km² behind Brazil.

Australia7,706,123 km²
On this map6th largest country
Versus Greenland3.6 times larger
Behind Brazil by793,403 km²

Australia is the only country that is also a continent, and it still loses to Brazil. Greenland’s reputation is a projection. Australia’s size is not.

Australia on Equal Earth, close to the latitude where Mercator tells something like the truth. Open this scene on the full map.

Areas are the shapes drawn on Map Real Size, measured on the sphere. Official land-area tables differ where they include inland water, a different coastline, or a disputed border. Australia is wider than the Moon.