Country size comparison

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Australia is about 2,032 times bigger 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 Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, making Australia 203,096% larger than Sydney.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sydney vs. Australia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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