Australia is 43,574 times larger than Washington, D.C..
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: 178 km2 calculated
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. Wikipedia