City size comparison

compared to

Chicago is about 1.3 times smaller than Hamburg.

Hamburg is approximately 755 sq km, while Chicago is approximately 590 sq km, making Chicago 78.11% the size of Hamburg.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Hamburg vs. Chicago uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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