City size comparison

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Zurich is about 43 times smaller than Sydney.

Sydney (the 30 councils of metropolitan Sydney, without the Blue Mountains, Hawkesbury, Wollondilly and the Central Coast) is approximately 3,810 sq km, while Zurich is approximately 88 sq km, making Zurich 2.31% the size of Sydney.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sydney vs. Zurich uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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