Country size comparison

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China is about 2,519 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 China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, making China 251,806% larger than Sydney.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sydney vs. China uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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