Comparing Canada to Australia 

I was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia. Just received the news that I am set to head to Montreal for an exchange semester! This video felt so perfectly timed. Thank you Geography King!

As you said, “both these countries are amazing places.” I’m American but lived in Australia (Melbourne) for a while and spent a lot of time in Canada. I love the U.S. and being American, but visiting places like the 12 Apostles, Wilson’s Promontory, Lake Louise, and Quebec City has strongly tempted me to imagine I’d rather be Canadian or Australian.

Canada is just a little bit more Americanized than a place like Australia meanwhile Australia feels more British

I remember when you ranked the US States By Name. Canada's province names beat Australia's. There are some great ones like "Manitoba" and "Saskatchewan". The best in Australia by default is Tasmania.

Thank you for acknowledging The Trailer Park Boys as a major cultural export! Also - Grace Under Pressure was a very underrated album!

Heh, nice to see the canadian and australian albums on the wall. I love Rush and King Gizzard.

I'd love to see more comparisons between similar countries. It'd be interesting to see one comparing Nordic countries.

Lol giving the point to Toronto over Sydney. I'm from Sydney and live in the midwest and have visited Toronto several times. Sydney is by FAR the greater city. Toronto is an eyesore and is an underwhelming largest city for Canada.

Aw, the picture of Steve Irwin warmed my heart! You could have compared Canadian vs. Australian TV and film, but of course we get much more Canadian crossover here in the US. I remember enjoying the Due South series way back in the 90s. An absolutely stellar Aussie TV series is Upright from 2 or 3 years ago, definitely worth finding and watching - the acting, story, and scenery are fantastic.

Gotta respect both of these countries for their skylines. They’re all amazing!

What a neat comparison -- and well thought out, too. I appreciate the attention to detail. I'm Canadian and I love Canada, but if Australia had been decided as the winner, that's cool too. Gotta get down there one of these days and check it out. However... as other commenters have noted, climate change may favour Canada in the future for two reasons: most obviously temperature, but access to fresh water is going to be the big one. Living on the shores of a Great Lake is going to be pretty advantageous in the decades to come.

I’m glad to see another comparison video. It’s been a while since you’ve done one. This was very well done. If you do another one, it would be interesting to see another two states that are fairly similar. New York/New Jersey, Massachusetts/Connecticut, The Dakotas and Wisconsin/Minnesota are a few state comparisons that I think would interest a lot of viewers. Keep doing what you do, Kyle. This is easily my favorite channel on RU-vid

Australia had one of the most draconian Covid responses. I don’t see how that makes it the best…

Canada's natural landscape is just stunning, can't be beat

I just saw a video earlier today from the Australian comedian Daniel Muggleton, who said "Canada is just like cold Australia".

I like the Bret "Hitman" Hart picture at the end.

I'm Canadian and I've always noticed that we are very similar to Australia. Similar personalities and easy going nature.

At some point Kyle you should at least try experiencing real winter, just to round out your credibility. And I'm not talking about New York or Chicago. That's not real winter. Nor is anything in the Pacific Northwest. (Did you know there are palm trees in Vancouver?) I'm talking about northern Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, the UP of Michigan, or colder parts of Canada, where it freezes solid for months at a time, and can stay below 0ºF for weeks at a time. It's really a different thing than most "warm climate" people assume it is. Sure, you can die without a jacket if you just go outside and sit there. But that's not what people do. We don't "like the cold" itself. It's about the awesome activities that are possible, and about staying warm despite the weather. Much to say about that. If you have friends in any of these areas I strongly recommend setting up a week or two trip in January or February to give it a good honest try and see what it's all about. Also, my two categories: Birthplace of Ice Hockey, and Kids in the Hall. Canada wins 2-0. :) Keep up the awesome vids!

I don’t think the number of Fortune 500 companies should be factored into which country is better

Melbourne > Montreal, Vancouver > Brisbane

You forgot one.....hockey vs Australian football. Hockey still rules.

Australia is too hot, Canada is too cold. You just can't win. Do you want skin cancer or chill blains? Ottawa is a nice city though except for the lousy weather. Vancouver was nice until it became strictly for rich people.

Great video Kyle! Agreed with most of it other than the Covid response and your weather preferences :D Between the two, Canada would have won by a lot more for me! Regardless, I learned a lot and enjoyed your perspective. Would love to see more videos like this on other similar countries and regions of the world!

Great video Kyle! Love the Polygondwanaland reference on the wall. We all wish Australia had more water!! I’m the guy that has the one pin in Victoria! 😊👍

Do Maryland vs Virginia! I'd love to duke it out with my DMV rivals

14:33 The Outback has some of the hottest weather on Earth. It’s up there with Death Valley and the Sahara Desert.

Beaches, but no skiing category? That's a bias there.

Great video! Surprised that you did not add music output as a category. (This one will be fiercely contested!) Do Ireland vs New Zealand next!

You could have just done the city comparisons. Everything I've learned about either country, especially Australia, is that they're both basically islands made up of cities with a huge sea of fuck all in the middle. Sand down under and snow up over.

Born and raised in Canada. I moved to Australia 7 years ago and I honestly fell in love this place. Don't get me wrong, I love Canada still, but I feel like Canada has become too Americanised.

There are so many Australians in Canada and vice versa, the countries are really kinda as close as two can get. I do hope someday some kind of free travel arrangement can be setup like CANZUK or similar to something like the schengen area so that we can remove the dumb barriers separating the two marvelous places.

As someone who has lived in both Brisbane and Vancouver for 5+ years, I can say there is a clear winner between the two cities and it's not the one you picked

Yayyyy Canada!! I'm from Vancouver. You're right, expensive and nasty traffic too! But it's beautiful. Great post, thanks! Note : I'd much rather encounter a large bear in the wilderness than a Huntsman spider in my bathroom. Australia can have their Jurassic Insect Park, I'll take my hockey, legal weed, and cold winters. Lol eh! 😉

Great Vid , Maybe you could of started a war between the Canucks and the Aussie's by comparing their beers to each others.

if NZ was part of Australia it would've been nice to see Edmonton vs Auckland compared

I live here at United States 🇺🇸. But I Chose Australia 🇦🇺. Great ocean 🌊 I want Sydney someday

If you do the analysis now, Australia Wins. In terms of crime rate, poverty rate and living cost in the cities you compared.

For animals, Canada is on my bucket list because I want to see musk oxen before I die. Australia kind of scares me, mainly because I hate spiders.

I would rather walk, ride my bicycle or motorbike in any aussie city than any cold Canadian city, I dont like cold snow and ice too much, just saying.

Overall this is an excellent analysis. Canada is such a wonderful country. However you missed wildly on health.

I am Australian and I do love Canada but unfortunately for the last 20 years Canadians seems getting so Americanised. A lot of Canadians getting so materialistic like most Americans.

I loved the wolverine comparison. The fact that Wolverine was a Canadian played by an Australian was not lost on me.

i am not impressesd with the categories here,. to say montreal tansport is better than melbourne . excuse me !!! wasting my time with this list.

Great video. In cities comparison, you have your own subjective point of view but I feel it’s harsh to say Montreal is better then Melbourne because Melbourne has been in top most liveable cities ranking top 5 for many years. So I will definitely give that point to Melbourne just because of liveability. Also for Sydney you mentioned that it doesn’t have good places of nature to go to as compared to Toronto whereas I heard opposite from some other reviews of the two cities. Also transport system in Sydney is much better then Toronto from what I have heard.

...I think Canada's climate and geography will be more livable 20 years from now compared to Australia.

Kyle I love that you used Trailer Park Boys to represent Canada, but you also need to give the glorious Canadian show Letterkenny a try if you haven’t seen it yet

OMG thanks for pronouncing Montreal correctly - with the O pronounced like Monday, monkey or come, not MAHNtreal like most Americans pronounce it. +1 point for you!

Ottawa took it on the chin there… but our public transit rightly deserves the Geography King’s shaming !!

"Covid response", really 🙄

I love Canada!

Wow, you really put some time into this comparison. Thanks! May I suggest a further couple of categories for comparison. One, the overall population's ranking on a happiness scale, and one on individual rights of political expression and freedom of the press.

A category I would add is workplace culture and regulations! Australians have way more paid time off than Canadians (a minimum of 4 weeks per year vs a minimum of 2 weeks), and a higher minimum wage. That's the main reason why I prefer to live in Australia, as cool as Toronto and Montreal may be.

I don't know about the weather comparison. Yes, the winters can be brutal in Canada, but the heat in Austrailia can be equally as brutal. I like having 4 seasons. Also summers in much of Canada is wonderful. Both countries are gigantic so you'll get some climate variations but Canada's is much more diverse.

Both countries have funny accents and good food, but Canadians drive on the correct side of the road. Bonus point

This guy is just inaccurate bout Australia, not gonna say more

I think both countries’ response to Covid were dystopian in nature, especially Canada with the truckers.

I think it's a little misleading to compare just pairs of cities that rank #1 or #2 (and down it goes) in population size per country. In each country, they're very different in nature. For example, in many ways (e.g. quality of life, expensive real estate, many dramatic hills/mountains nearby, gorgeous weather and gorgeous beaches), it's better to compare Sydney with Vancouver rather than with Toronto, even if Toronto has hills and ravines. Similarly, in terms of being national capital cities, it's better to compare Ottawa with Canberra rather than with Perth; on that count, Ottawa most definitely trumps Canberra in terms of being more of a "real" city and metro area.

Way off on Australia's covid response.

I'm from the UK lived in Australia for 2 years and 4 years in Canada. I loved Australia and Aussies but Canada is definitely the better place to live. Its much closer to the rest of the world, 4 beautiful and distinct seasons, amazing food and the nature is unbeatable. Australia has gorgeous coats but nothing but a desert in the middle and literally almost no people settled in the middle. Takes days and days to travel from one coast to the other with nothing but a desert and snakes in the middle. Canada has people settled all across and its so green and full of dense forests and beautiful scenery when you are driving from one place to another. Also, the beauty of the rockies at Banff National Park and Lake louise, as well as British Columbia and Vancouver Island can not be matched anywhere in the world. I hope I can live in Canada forever one day.

For beaches, I am disenheartened that you neglected the great lakes. Might not have tipped the scales, but it would have a great impact.

GK may as well compare Canada to Finland. There was a plan from the US that they planned to move Finland to Alaska..... If the Cold War had gone to the worst case

I'd take Australia over Canada. Work environment and climate does it.

Canada is meh...

1:14. If you want a map where you can compare countries without mercator distortion you can go to a site called " true size of countries" And then put both countries on the equator next to each other. That all make it very clear direcrly for your viewer. Thank you for the video. Keep up the great work!

Melbourne, Sydney, Vancouver... The rest are tied for last place.

Oh I love this! Please please please use the same format to do: France vs. Germany, France vs. UK, Argentina vs. Brazil, Mexico vs. Brazil, Iran vs Iraq, Nigeria vs. Egypt, Spain vs. Italy vs. Portugal, and, why not, US vs China. Please!

The biggest difference I noticed was temporary....

Comparison videos are great, eh? 🇨🇦 I love the video, mate. 🇦🇺 Can't wait to travel to both of these countries some day soon my dude 🇺🇲

Grace Under Pressure and Polygondwanaland. You keep outdoing yourself with the albums!

Fascinating video! Mind if you could do a ranking of the Canadian license plates from worst to best?

geographic profiles on canadian provinces?

you didn't take the HDI into account and also Australia has a better and influensive mining sector and it has way higher wages than anyone else..............especially CANADA......australia has more universities in the top 100 but canada has more graduates...australia's olympic and other games performance is better than canada and also it has more millionaires but canada has more billionaires but per capita wise australia has more.....and also more wealth than canada...........these are also some major points not to be missed.........btw nice video

I think the dangerous animals and insects seals the deal for me, in favor of Canada!

That rush album cover!! =) i recognized it immediately. love seeing your records change every video

Lol.. some really dumb comparisons there. What does Fortune 500 company rankings have to do with the general welfare of the people? Australia has a higher life expectancy and development index score overall. That's what counts more.

I'm Canadian but also heard great things about Australia and would love to visit it one day! 😀

Rush represent!

For me, this is a very easy choice. I pick Australia. It has 100 times better weather than Canada.

I greatly appreciate the Rush and KGLW exposure

Great video! I agree. Both countries are amazing and make sense as countries to move to if I were to ever leave the US. However I’m particularly partial to Australia. If one prefers both the classic California/Southwest US lifestyle and vibe but also like British vibe and influence - I think one would be more drawn to Australia. Sydney is one my favorite cities in the planet. I typically judge and prefer big cities masse on the nature and outdoors close by - and with the beaches, harbor, national parks and unique fauna in and around Sydney - totally my city! I was in Australia for three weeks back in 2015, and am aiming to back in 2024. Next year I’m planning on doing a road trip up to the PAC-NW from SoCal and plan going over the border to Vancouver.

Both beautiful but ruined by horrible politics

Indonesia versus Brazil sounds like an even match.

Ay shoutout St. Louie :] (sorry just had to throw that in there lol) Great video as usual, very interesting!

Thank you . You did a lot of work. You were very fair. 🇺🇸🇬🇧 🇦🇺 🇳🇿 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿😀🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

If you want to experience Canada outside of Canada, just go to Minnesota, Wisconsin, Upstate New York, parts of New England.

Please compare texas to a country with similar population. Thanks .

I've lived in both and preferred Australia just because they climate is so much more hospitable. ☀️⛱️ Canada is beautiful, well worth a visit, but winters are hard. 🥶🌨️ Or maybe I'm just soft! 😉

Canada’s nature and wildlife is better imo

Interesting that you used a picture of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine to represent Australia. He is Australian but the Wolverine character is Canadian.

As a life-long Ottawa resident, the general description of Ottawa leaves the watcher with a negative impression. First, comparing with a city that is 50% larger makes for an apples and oranges comparison in some respects. To suggest that Perth ranks much higher for livability is not really true. Ottawa has ranked consistently very highly for livability and when climate is excluded (already considered separately), the two cities are quite similar. It is unfortunate how the public transit problems have received so much publicity, when Ottawa's transit system has overall ranked very highly for a city of its size. Also, the rail network is currently in the process of being tripled in length. I have never been to Perth and I am sure the location is beautiful, but I am not sure how the Ottawa area is lacking in that department either. Sure, Ottawa is not a beach city (there are some beaches), but three major rivers converge in the centre of the city with two large waterfalls, and the natural areas within the city and the surrounding area are comparable at least to Montreal. Of course, one big positive of Ottawa is its proximity to other major cities, that are not half of continent away, but a couple of hours drive in the case of Montreal and within a 2 hour flight of many major cities in Eastern North America. I do concede the climate but at least you can enjoy winter sports here.

Australia-immigrants say flee your life to Canada 🇨🇦🏃🏻‍♂️ And Canada-immigrants say flee immidiately to Australia 🇳🇿🏃🏻. Meanwhile both native citizens in both countries are praying to God to FLEE to Costa Rica or Bolivia 🌎 Whom would you believe? 😁

Kyle, great video, as always. The question I have is how you decided that the climate of Australia is better than that of Canada. The reason is that it seems like it may have been determined that the former's is better than the latter's because it's warmer. However, that's a bit more subjective than objective from my point of view. There are millions of people who absolutely love winter, and all of the things one can do in that season, while others think the only only life worth mentioning is hanging out on the beach for your entire life, or getting roasted in the desert for the same amount of time.

why is kyle's audio panned to the left lol

Great analysis. No mention of Kylie Minogue or Alanis Morrisette? 😋 I've only heard good things about both places.

These 2 countries are very similar yet very different.

I would like to make a comment regarding COVID response: Australia was objectively the most fascist in its responses after China. It was an enormous clown show. The way they treated protesters was out of this world. Canada: Freedom convoy & response. 'Nuff said. This really didn't age well.

When comparing the cities, you should include their GDPs which are incredibly important.

Great video, Kyle!! I'd love to see more comparison videos, particularly US vs. others. You might also include political stability as a comparison category. Keep up the good work!!

Disappointing. I was looking for differences of attitudes, personality, ways of looking at things, culture, and so on. Instead, statistics. To me, that's boring, and not very revealing.

Thanks Kyle! I’ve been looking forward to an overseas analysis, and you’ve picked the country I live in (Australia) and my favourite country to visit on vacation (Canada)!