San Francisco is about 31 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 San Francisco (including the city proper only) is approximately 121 sq km, making San Francisco 3.18% the size of Sydney.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sydney vs. San Francisco uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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