City size comparison

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Jakarta 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 Jakarta is approximately 662 sq km, making Jakarta 17.38% the size of Sydney.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sydney vs. Jakarta uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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