Sydney is about 66 times smaller than Michigan.

Michigan is approximately 250,493 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 1.52% the size of Michigan.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Michigan vs. Sydney uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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