City size comparison

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Amsterdam is about 23 times smaller than Sydney.

Sydney (the 30 councils of metropolitan Sydney, without the Blue Mountains, Hawkesbury, Wollondilly and the Central Coast) is approximately 3,810 sq km, while Amsterdam is approximately 166 sq km, making Amsterdam 4.35% the size of Sydney.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sydney vs. Amsterdam uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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