Country size comparison
compared to
Australia is about 5 times bigger than Alaska.
Alaska is approximately 1,481,348 sq km, while Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, making Australia 423% larger than Alaska. Meanwhile, the population of Alaska is ~710,231 people (25.4 million more people live in Australia).
This to-scale comparison of
Alaska
vs.
Australia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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