City size comparison

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Bakersfield is around the same size as Raleigh.

Raleigh is approximately 391 sq km, while Bakersfield (map shows its 44 named neighbourhoods; the area covers the whole city) is approximately 389 sq km, making Bakersfield 99.56% the size of Raleigh.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Raleigh vs. Bakersfield uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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