City size comparison

compared to

Chicago is about 174 times smaller than Kentucky.

Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, while Chicago is approximately 590 sq km, making Chicago 0.57% the size of Kentucky.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Kentucky vs. Chicago uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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