Country size comparison

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France is about 145 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 France is approximately 551,500 sq km, making France 14,376% larger than Sydney.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sydney vs. France uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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