Australia is so ridiculously huge that even the relatively tiny fraction that’s amenable to crops is still one of the world’s biggest. Only 4% of its land is arable and that still means it has the 10th largest arable area of any country (ten times more arable land than Taiwan has any kind of land)
If you look at habitable zones, most of Australias cities are around the coast. The center supports very little due to the arid climate.
Australia is so ridiculously huge that even the relatively tiny fraction that’s amenable to crops is still one of the world’s biggest. Only 4% of its land is arable and that still means it has the 10th largest arable area of any country (ten times more arable land than Taiwan has any kind of land)
And they are going through a water crisis made exponentially worse by privatizing the water rights to their rivers.
The center of Taiwan is very mountainous so most of the population of Taiwan is around the coast as well.