City size comparison

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Sydney is about 4.3 times smaller than Beijing.

Beijing is approximately 16,411 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 23.22% the size of Beijing.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Beijing vs. Sydney uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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