Country size comparison

compared to

France is about 14 times smaller than Australia.

Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, while France is approximately 551,500 sq km, making France 7.12% the size of Australia. Meanwhile, the population of Australia is ~26.1 million people (42.2 million more people live in France).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Australia vs. France uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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