City size comparison

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London is about 2.4 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 London (including the 32 boroughs of greater London) is approximately 1,572 sq km, making London 41.26% the size of Sydney.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sydney vs. London uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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