Country size comparison

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Russia is about 4,488 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 Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, making Russia 448,704% larger than Sydney.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sydney vs. Russia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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