City size comparison

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Budapest is about 7 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 Budapest is approximately 525 sq km, making Budapest 13.78% the size of Sydney.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sydney vs. Budapest uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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