City size comparison

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Bucharest is about 11 times smaller than Cape Town.

Cape Town is approximately 2,455 sq km, while Bucharest is approximately 226 sq km, making Bucharest 9.21% the size of Cape Town.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Cape Town vs. Bucharest uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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