City size comparison

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Istanbul is about 15 times bigger than Detroit.

Detroit (map shows its 92 named neighbourhoods; the area covers the whole city) is approximately 359 sq km, while Istanbul is approximately 5,343 sq km, making Istanbul 1,387% larger than Detroit.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Detroit vs. Istanbul uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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