Country size comparison

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Sydney is about 263 times smaller than Egypt.

Egypt is approximately 1,001,450 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 0.38% the size of Egypt.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Egypt vs. Sydney uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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