City size comparison

compared to

Chicago is about 685 times smaller than California.

California is approximately 403,882 sq km, while Chicago is approximately 590 sq km, making Chicago 0.15% the size of California.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of California vs. Chicago uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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