Country size comparison

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Sydney is about 4,488 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 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 0.02% the size of Russia.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. Sydney uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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