City size comparison

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Athens is about 4.1 times bigger than Barcelona.

Barcelona is approximately 101 sq km, while Athens (map shows its 34 named neighbourhoods; the area covers the whole city) is approximately 412 sq km, making Athens 307% larger than Barcelona.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Barcelona vs. Athens uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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