City size comparison

compared to

Riyadh is about 2.1 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 Riyadh (map shows its 9 named neighbourhoods; the area covers the whole city) is approximately 1,798 sq km, making Riyadh 47.19% the size of Sydney.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sydney vs. Riyadh uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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