City size comparison

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Chicago is about 3.3 times bigger than Brooklyn.

Brooklyn is approximately 180 sq km, while Chicago is approximately 590 sq km, making Chicago 228% larger than Brooklyn.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Brooklyn vs. Chicago uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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