City size comparison

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Shanghai is about 1.7 times bigger 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 Shanghai is approximately 6,341 sq km, making Shanghai 66% larger than Sydney.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sydney vs. Shanghai uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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