Country size comparison

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Sydney is about 249 times smaller than Tanzania.

Tanzania is approximately 947,300 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 0.4% the size of Tanzania.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Tanzania vs. Sydney uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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