City size comparison

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Denver is about 1.5 times smaller than Chicago.

Chicago is approximately 590 sq km, while Denver is approximately 396 sq km, making Denver 67.22% the size of Chicago.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Chicago vs. Denver uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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