Country size comparison
compared to
Australia is about 2.3 times smaller than South America.
South America is approximately 17,840,000 sq km, while Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, making Australia 43.39% the size of South America.
This to-scale comparison of
South America
vs.
Australia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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