State of Australia

Victoria

Victoria is a state of Australia. It covers about 228,000 km² (88,000 mi²), the 6th largest of the 8 states and territories in Natural Earth’s file for Australia, and about the same size as Laos. About 7.0 million people live there (Wikidata, 2024).

In area1.00×the size ofLaos228,000 km² In people1.02×as many people asLaos6.9 million

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Laos
Victoria

Facts

Area, measured	228,000 km²88,000 mi²
Official area	227,000 km²Wikidata · agrees with our measure
Share of Australia	3.0%of the area of the 8 states and territories
Rank by area	6th of 8states and territories of Australia
Population	7.0 millionWikidata, 2024
Density	31 people per km²
Capital	Melbourne
Latitude range	39°S to 34°S
Type	StateAU-VIC

What the numbers say about Victoria

Victoria covers 3.0% of the area of Australia and ranks 2nd of 8 by population, against 6th by area.
It would take 33.7 states and territories the size of Victoria to cover Australia.
The largest, Western Australia, is 11.1× the size of Victoria; the smallest, Australian Capital Territory, is 1.0% of it.
Closest in size within Australia: Tasmania (Australia) (68,100 km², 3.35×) and New South Wales (802,000 km², 3.52×).
Counted as a country, Victoria would be larger than 156 of the 239 countries and territories listed on sizeversus, and would rank 84th by area, between Laos (228,000 km²) and Guyana (211,000 km²).
With 7.0 million people it would rank 106th of 238 by population.
Victoria has 31 people per km², about the density of Laos, which has 30 per km².
That makes Victoria the 2nd most densely populated of the 8 states and territories, 8.65× the average for Australia (3.6 per km²).
On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 37°S is drawn about 1.6× too large in area, so Victoria looks bigger there than it is.
Laid out flat, Victoria stretches about 570 km north to south and 807 km east to west.
Wikidata's official figure of 227,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 228,000 km², to within 2%.

About the same size as

About as many people as

Beside the regions of other countries

The closest region by area and by people in each of the other countries that have regional pages here, within a factor of 2. All 395 regions side by side.

ChinaAreaGuangxi0.96× · 237,000 km² PeopleNingxia0.97× · 7.2 million (2020)
United StatesAreaMinnesota1.01× · 225,000 km² PeopleMassachusetts1.00× · 7.0 million (2020)
IndiaAreaUttar Pradesh0.95× · 240,000 km² PeopleHimachal Pradesh1.02× · 6.9 million (2011)
GermanyAreanone within 2×PeopleHesse1.13× · 6.2 million (2022)
FranceAreanone within 2×PeopleNouvelle-Aquitaine1.15× · 6.1 million (2022)
ItalyAreanone within 2×PeopleLazio1.19× · 5.9 million (2019)
SpainAreanone within 2×PeopleCommunity of Madrid1.00× · 7.0 million (2024)
JapanAreanone within 2×PeopleSaitama0.95× · 7.3 million (2021)
BrazilAreaRoraima1.01× · 225,000 km² PeopleGoiás0.99× · 7.1 million (2022)
CanadaAreaNewfoundland and Labrador57% · 403,000 km² PeopleQuebec82% · 8.5 million (2021)
MexicoAreaChihuahua0.92× · 248,000 km² PeopleJalisco89% · 7.8 million (2015)
ThailandAreanone within 2×PeopleBangkok1.24× · 5.7 million (2018)

Where Victoria sits in Australia

All 8 drawn on one equal-area map, so sizes are comparable. Select another to open it.

Ranked within Australia

All 8 states and territories of Australia, matched to countries

Compare Victoria

Sources and method

Outline: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain
Boundary: De facto, as drawn by Natural Earth.
Area: Measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outline, shown rounded. The region’s whole area is counted, every island included.
Official figures: Area, population and capital from Wikidata (CC0), fetched 2026-11-12
Population: Wikidata, 2024. Australia’s units share the 2024 figures where Wikidata has them; the year is shown wherever the figure is.
Matching: Countries come from Natural Earth’s country file. Places whose status is contested and dependencies are never used as automatic matches. A region under 2,500 km² is matched against the small countries and island nations.
Data built: 2026-11-12

Full method