Country size comparison

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Ireland is about 110 times smaller than Australia.

Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, while Ireland is approximately 70,273 sq km, making Ireland 0.91% the size of Australia. Meanwhile, the population of Australia is ~26.1 million people (20.9 million fewer people live in Ireland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Australia vs. Ireland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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