Country size comparison

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United Kingdom is about 64 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 United Kingdom is approximately 243,610 sq km, making United Kingdom 6,294% larger than Sydney.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sydney vs. United Kingdom uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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