Country size comparison
compared to
Australia is about 1.3 times smaller than United States.
United States is approximately 9,833,517 sq km, while Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, making Australia 78.72% the size of United States. Meanwhile, the population of United States is ~337.3 million people (311.2 million fewer people live in Australia).
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