City size comparison

compared to

Atlanta is about 1.7 times smaller than Chicago.

Chicago is approximately 590 sq km, while Atlanta is approximately 350 sq km, making Atlanta 59.42% the size of Chicago.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Chicago vs. Atlanta uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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