How big is Australia? The land area of Australia is 7,617,930 square kilometres (2,941,300 sq mi). That makes it the sixth largest country in the world after Russia, Canada, China, the USA, and Brazil. Still, Australia’s land area is only five percent of the Earth’s land area.
Facts about Australia’s size
- Australia is wider than the moon by around 600 kilometres (373 miles)
- Although Australia is the smallest continent, it is the world’s largest island
- Australia is about 32 times bigger than United Kingdom
- Australia is the flattest continent
- Australia is believed to be the oldest continent
- The Australian mainland has 34,218 kilometres (21,262 mi) of coastline
- Australia has more than 11,000 beaches
- Australia’s population density is 2.8 inhabitants per square kilometre, among the lowest in the world
- Australia’s biggest desert is the Great Victoria Desert, and it is bigger than New Zealand
