City size comparison

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Sydney is about 4.7 times bigger than Canberra.

Canberra is approximately 814 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 368% larger than Canberra.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Canberra vs. Sydney uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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