City size comparison

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Sydney is about 1.3 times smaller than Auckland.

Auckland is approximately 4,894 sq km, while Sydney (the 30 councils of metropolitan Sydney, without the Blue Mountains, Hawkesbury, Wollondilly and the Central Coast) is approximately 3,810 sq km, making Sydney 77.85% the size of Auckland.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Auckland vs. Sydney uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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