Kyoto
828 km²
Sydney
12,368 km²
Japan
Australia
Area Comparison
Kyoto is 14.9x smaller than Sydney
Population Comparison
Kyoto has 3.6x fewer people than Sydney
In terms of area, Sydney is 14.9x the size of Kyoto. Sydney spans 12,368 km² (4,775 mi²) while Kyoto covers 828 km² (320 mi²) — a difference of 11,540 km². You could fit Kyoto inside Sydney approximately 14 times.
To put Kyoto's size in perspective, its area of 828 km² is roughly the same size as New York City. Meanwhile, Sydney at 12,368 km² is about 2.0x the size of Shanghai.
Picture Kyoto another way: its area is large enough to fit about 116,000 American football fields, 14 times the area of Manhattan, or 8 times the area of Paris. Sydney works out to about 1,700,000 American football fields, 120 times the area of Paris, or 100 times the area of San Francisco.
Kyoto, officially Kyoto City , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan's largest and most populous island of Honshu. As of 2020, the city had a population of 1.46 million, making it the ninth-most populous city in Japan. More than half (56.8%) of Kyoto Prefecture's population resides in the city. The city is the cultural anchor of the substantially larger Greater Kyoto, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) home to a census-estimated 3.8 million people.
Known as "Thousand-Year Capital", Kyoto covers 828 km² with a population of 1.5 million. The city was established in 794. Kyoto is known for Fushimi Inari Shrine, Kinkaku-ji Golden Pavilion, Gion geisha district, among other attractions.
More than half of Kyoto Prefecture's entire population lives within Kyoto City itself.
Sydney is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and is the most populous city in Australia. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about 80 kilometres (50 mi) from the Pacific Ocean in the east to the Blue Mountains in the west, and about 80 kilometres (50 mi) from Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park and the Hawkesbury River in the north and north-west, to the Royal National Park and Macarthur in the south and south-west.
Nicknamed "Sydneysiders", Sydney has an area of 12,368 km² and is home to 5.3 million people. It was established in 1788. Visitors come for Sydney Opera House, Sydney Harbour Bridge, Bondi Beach, and much more. Getting around is easy with the Sydney Trains.
Sydney stretches roughly 80 km from the Pacific Ocean in the east to the Blue Mountains in the west.
Kyoto has a population density of 1,763 people per km² — a relatively spread-out city. Sydney, with 429 people per km², is a low-density, sprawling urban area. Kyoto is dramatically more crowded, with 4.1x the population density.
Size Ratio
Kyoto fits inside Sydney ~14 times
Density Gap
Kyoto is 4.1x more densely populated
History
Kyoto is ~994 years older
Kyoto covers 828 km². Cities with a similar urban footprint include Santiago (838 km²), New York (783 km²), Berlin (892 km²), Hamburg (755 km²), or Bangalore (741 km²).
Sydney covers 12,368 km². Cities with a similar urban footprint include Chengdu (14,378 km²), Xi'an (10,097 km²), Melbourne (9,993 km²), Brisbane (15,826 km²), or Beijing (16,411 km²).
The straight-line distance from Kyoto to Sydney is 7,826 km (4,863 miles), with an estimated flight time of ~9h 42m.
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