City size comparison

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Athens is about 9 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 Athens (map shows its 34 named neighbourhoods; the area covers the whole city) is approximately 412 sq km, making Athens 10.81% the size of Sydney.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sydney vs. Athens uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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