Land area comparison · 2023 data
Canada vs Australia.
Both dominate their regions visually, but Canada has the larger measured land area.
Canada8,788,700 km²
Australia7,692,020 km²
Canada has about 1.14 times the land area of Australia.
1,096,680 km²difference
Canada is 114.3% of Australiarelative size
2023World Bank data
What the numbers say
Canada leads, but not by a continent.
Canada records 8,788,700 km² of land area compared with Australia’s 7,692,020 km². The gap is just under 1.1 million km².
Canada is about 14% larger by this measure. Because land area excludes inland water, Canada’s familiar total-area figure is considerably higher than the number used here.
This distinction matters especially for Canada, whose lakes account for a large part of its total surface area.
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