Canada vs Australia: which is bigger?

Canada is bigger: 9,984,670 km² against 7,692,024 km², about 1.3 times the size of Australia.

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Side by side at true size

Both drawn at the same scale on an equal-area projection.

And on the usual world map

On the usual world map Canada looks 5.3 times bigger, not 1.3: the map inflates Canada about 5.1 times and Australia 1.25 times.

In numbers

Canada: 9,984,670 km² (3,860,000 sq mi), 2nd largest, around 59°N
Australia: 7,692,024 km² (2,970,000 sq mi), 6th largest, around 26°S
Australia would fit into Canada about 1.3 times.

Areas: official totals including inland water (UN Statistics Division via Wikidata). Outlines: Natural Earth. How Globegami works