City size comparison

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Beijing is about 4.3 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 Beijing is approximately 16,411 sq km, making Beijing 331% larger than Sydney.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sydney vs. Beijing uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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