Country size comparison

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Tanzania is about 249 times bigger than Sydney.

Sydney (the 30 councils of metropolitan Sydney, without the Blue Mountains, Hawkesbury, Wollondilly and the Central Coast) is approximately 3,810 sq km, while Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, making Tanzania 24,765% larger than Sydney.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sydney vs. Tanzania uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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