City size comparison

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Madrid 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 Madrid is approximately 604 sq km, making Madrid 15.86% the size of Sydney.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sydney vs. Madrid uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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