City size comparison

compared to

Chicago is about 207 times smaller than New York.

New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Chicago is approximately 590 sq km, making Chicago 0.48% the size of New York.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New York vs. Chicago uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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