City size comparison

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San Jose is about 21 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 Jose is approximately 180 sq km, making San Jose 4.72% the size of Sydney.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sydney vs. San Jose uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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