City size comparison

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Chicago is about 174 times smaller than Virginia.

Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, while Chicago is approximately 590 sq km, making Chicago 0.58% the size of Virginia.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Virginia vs. Chicago uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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