City size comparison

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Kuala Lumpur is about 16 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 Kuala Lumpur is approximately 244 sq km, making Kuala Lumpur 6.4% the size of Sydney.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sydney vs. Kuala Lumpur uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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