City size comparison

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Kuala Lumpur is about 7 times smaller than Johannesburg.

Johannesburg is approximately 1,644 sq km, while Kuala Lumpur is approximately 244 sq km, making Kuala Lumpur 14.82% the size of Johannesburg.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Johannesburg vs. Kuala Lumpur uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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