City size comparison

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Manchester is about 33 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 Manchester is approximately 116 sq km, making Manchester 3.03% the size of Sydney.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sydney vs. Manchester uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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