Minneapolis is about 27 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 Minneapolis is approximately 140 sq km, making Minneapolis 3.67% the size of Sydney.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sydney vs. Minneapolis uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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