Australia is enormous compared to the UK: by land area, Australia is roughly 31–32 times bigger than the United Kingdom.

Basic size comparison

  • Australia’s total area is about 7.7 million square kilometres (around 2.97 million square miles).
  • The United Kingdom’s area is about 243,000–244,000 square kilometres (around 94,000 square miles).
  • That means Australia is over 30 times larger than the UK by surface area.

How it feels in real terms

  • You could fit the UK into Australia more than thirty times and still have space left over.
  • A trip that might take a few hours by car in the UK can take several days of driving across Australian states because of the huge distances involved.

Population versus space

  • Despite its huge landmass, Australia has only around 26–27 million people, giving it a low population density.
  • The UK, with around 67 million people in a much smaller area, feels far more crowded in comparison.

Simple HTML table (area)

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Country Approx. area (km²) Times UK size
Australia 7,700,000 km² (approx.)≈ 31–32 × UK
United Kingdom ≈ 243,000–244,000 km²1 ×
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