City size comparison

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Phoenix is about 2.8 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 Phoenix is approximately 1,342 sq km, making Phoenix 35.23% the size of Sydney.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sydney vs. Phoenix uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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