Country size comparison

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Sydney is about 2,032 times smaller than Australia.

Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, while Sydney (the 30 councils of metropolitan Sydney, without the Blue Mountains, Hawkesbury, Wollondilly and the Central Coast) is approximately 3,810 sq km, making Sydney 0.05% the size of Australia.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Australia vs. Sydney uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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