City size comparison

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Istanbul is about 7 times bigger than Charlotte.

Charlotte (map shows its 157 named neighbourhoods; the area covers the whole city) is approximately 807 sq km, while Istanbul is approximately 5,343 sq km, making Istanbul 562% larger than Charlotte.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Charlotte vs. Istanbul uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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