City size comparison

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Sydney is about 33 times bigger than Manchester.

Manchester is approximately 116 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 3,196% larger than Manchester.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Manchester vs. Sydney uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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