City size comparison

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Beijing is about 136 times bigger than San Francisco.

San Francisco (including the city proper only) is approximately 121 sq km, while Beijing is approximately 16,411 sq km, making Beijing 13,462% larger than San Francisco.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of San Francisco vs. Beijing uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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