City size comparison

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Lisbon is about 25 times smaller than Cape Town.

Cape Town is approximately 2,455 sq km, while Lisbon (map shows its 24 named neighbourhoods; the area covers the whole city) is approximately 100 sq km, making Lisbon 4.08% the size of Cape Town.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Cape Town vs. Lisbon uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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