Country size comparison
compared to
Australia is about 29 times bigger than New Zealand.
New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, while Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, making Australia 2,780% larger than New Zealand. Meanwhile, the population of New Zealand is ~5.1 million people (21.1 million more people live in Australia).
This to-scale comparison of
New Zealand
vs.
Australia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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