Country size comparison

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Australia is about 1.3 times smaller than Canada.

Canada is approximately 9,984,670 sq km, while Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, making Australia 77.53% the size of Canada. Meanwhile, the population of Canada is ~38.2 million people (12.1 million fewer people live in Australia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Canada vs. Australia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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