Country size comparison

compared to

Italy is about 26 times smaller than Australia.

Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, while Italy is approximately 301,340 sq km, making Italy 3.89% the size of Australia. Meanwhile, the population of Australia is ~26.1 million people (35.0 million more people live in Italy).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Australia vs. Italy uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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