Country size comparison

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Alaska is about 5 times smaller than Australia.

Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, while Alaska is approximately 1,481,348 sq km, making Alaska 19.14% the size of Australia. Meanwhile, the population of Australia is ~26.1 million people (25.4 million fewer people live in Alaska).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Australia vs. Alaska uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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