Country size comparison

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Australia is about 14 times bigger than France.

France is approximately 551,500 sq km, while Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, making Australia 1,304% larger than France. Meanwhile, the population of France is ~68.3 million people (42.2 million fewer people live in Australia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of France vs. Australia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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