Sydney is about 27 times smaller than Virginia.

Virginia is approximately 102,548 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 3.72% the size of Virginia.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Virginia vs. Sydney uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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