City size comparison

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Charlottesville is about 201 times smaller than Istanbul.

Istanbul is approximately 5,343 sq km, while Charlottesville is approximately 27 sq km, making Charlottesville 0.5% the size of Istanbul.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Istanbul vs. Charlottesville uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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