Country size comparison

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Sydney is about 18 times smaller than Ireland.

Ireland is approximately 70,273 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 5.42% the size of Ireland.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Ireland vs. Sydney uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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