City size comparison

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New Orleans is about 9 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 New Orleans is approximately 439 sq km, making New Orleans 11.52% the size of Sydney.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sydney vs. New Orleans uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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