Country size comparison

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Sydney is about 27 times smaller than Iceland.

Iceland is approximately 103,000 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 3.7% the size of Iceland.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iceland vs. Sydney uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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