City size comparison

compared to

Detroit is about 340 times smaller than New York.

New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Detroit is approximately 359 sq km, making Detroit 0.29% the size of New York.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New York vs. Detroit uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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