Sydney is about 42 times bigger than Fort Lauderdale.

Fort Lauderdale (excluding the city's 9.9 sq km of water area) is approximately 90 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 4,133% larger than Fort Lauderdale.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Fort Lauderdale vs. Sydney uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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