City size comparison

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Chicago is about 245 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Chicago is approximately 590 sq km, making Chicago 0.41% the size of Iowa.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Chicago uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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