City size comparison

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Houston is about 2.3 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 Houston is approximately 1,659 sq km, making Houston 43.54% the size of Sydney.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sydney vs. Houston uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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