City size comparison

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Chicago is about 425 times smaller than Michigan.

Michigan is approximately 250,493 sq km, while Chicago is approximately 590 sq km, making Chicago 0.24% the size of Michigan.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Michigan vs. Chicago uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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