Sydney is about 27 times bigger than Minneapolis.

Minneapolis is approximately 140 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 2,624% larger than Minneapolis.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Minneapolis vs. Sydney uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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