Australia is 56,147 times larger than Lafayette, Louisiana.
Area: 7,741,220 km2 World Factbook
Population: 22,507,617 (July 2014) World Factbook
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area. Wikipedia
Area: 138 km2 calculated
Lafayette is a city located along the Vermilion River in southwestern Louisiana. The city of Lafayette is the fourth-largest in the state, with a population of 120,623 at the 2010 census. The combined statistical area of Lafayette–Opelousas-Morgan City was 611,774 according to 2012 estimates. Wikipedia