Country size comparison

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Australia is about 110 times bigger than Ireland.

Ireland is approximately 70,273 sq km, while Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, making Australia 10,916% larger than Ireland. Meanwhile, the population of Ireland is ~5.5 million people (22.1 million more people live in Australia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Ireland vs. Australia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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