City size comparison

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Sydney is about 2.4 times bigger than London.

London (including the 32 boroughs of greater London) is approximately 1,572 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 142% larger than London.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of London vs. Sydney uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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