There are 22 million people in Australia. (Pop Upade: 24 million 2016) We Aussies might have the reputation of being tough individuals who can open stubbies with our teeth and wrestle crocodiles. But we Aussies aren’t rugged folk. We cling to life in the cities and we couldn’t survive for 3 days in the desert without a latte. If we got lost in the wilderness we’d only survive if we could light a fire by rubbing 2 iPhones together.
We Aussies are ever so slightly spooked by the greatness and vastness of our Red Centre. There aren’t many people out there. You can drive for days without seeing a Macdonald’s. And, anyone you meet in the red centre is, according to some movies, an unshaven, axe-wielding psychopath. No wonder we stay put in the cities. Being city dwellers, however, we can’t quite grasp the size of Australia. So how big is Australia?
The area of Australia is 7, 686, 850 sq km. You’ll find more info @ Nationmaster
Here mathspigs are some interesting comparisons using areas in sq km although the unit doesn’t matter, of course as long as you keep using the same one. These calcs ignore the shapes. It is a straight area calculation.
Australia = 0.78 USA
Australia = 0.81 China
Australia = 11.0 Texas’s
We often say bigger than Texas in Australia. This is ironic as one of our states 
West Australia = 3.63 Texas’s. I can’t imagine saying bigger than West Australia. Maybe it had something to do with the size of those cowboy hats.
Australia = 25.5 Italys
Australia = 28.6 New Zealands
After all of the jokes we make about New Zealand it isn’t that small!!!!! It is bigger, for instance, than UK.
Australia = 31.4 UKs
Australia = 58.26 Greeces
Australia = 185 Netherlands
Australia = 856 Yellowstone National Parks
In fact, one of our National Parks Kakadu is 20,000 sq km. This makes it the second largest National Park in the world (Greenland wins!) and
Kakadu = 2.2 Yellowstone National Parks
Australia = 128,114 Manhattans
Australia = 3, 843, 425 Monacos
This statistic is particularly amusing. The population of Australia is approx 22 million. (24 m in 2016) Divide this figure by the number of Monacos and we have 6 people per princedom. Every family in Australia could, theoretically, have it’s own principality!!!!
Golf courses range from 140 – 250 acres but 250 acres = approx 1 sq km. This is St Andrew’s, Scotland, 18th hole pictured.
Australia = 7, 686, 850 Golf Courses
Turing Australia into 7 million plus golf courses would please some. We have a lot of water traps and sand bunkers. And Australia is, mostly, FLAT.
Australia = 22,345,494 Disneylands
Imagine Australia being turned into 22 million theme parks. It would be amaaaaazing!!!! We would get one Disneyland for each of us!!!!!
Australia = 18, 302, 023, 810 Basketball Courts.
Unfortunately, we can only manage one player for every 832 basketball courts, which would not make for much of a game.
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