City size comparison

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Auckland is about 1.3 times bigger 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 Auckland is approximately 4,894 sq km, making Auckland 28% larger than Sydney.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sydney vs. Auckland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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