City size comparison

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Sydney is about 43 times bigger than Zurich.

Zurich is approximately 88 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 4,235% larger than Zurich.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Zurich vs. Sydney uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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