City size comparison

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Bellingham is about 8 times smaller than Chicago.

Chicago is approximately 590 sq km, while Bellingham (map shows its 21 named neighbourhoods; the area covers the whole city) is approximately 73 sq km, making Bellingham 12.38% the size of Chicago.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Chicago vs. Bellingham uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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