New Zealand is about 29 times smaller than Australia.

Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, while New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, making New Zealand 3.47% the size of Australia. Meanwhile, the population of Australia is ~26.1 million people (21.1 million fewer people live in New Zealand).
This to-scale comparison of Australia vs. New Zealand uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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