City size comparison

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Chicago is about 6 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 Chicago is approximately 590 sq km, making Chicago 15.48% the size of Sydney.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sydney vs. Chicago uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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