City size comparison

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London is about 1.6 times smaller than Cape Town.

Cape Town is approximately 2,455 sq km, while London (including the 32 boroughs of greater London) is approximately 1,572 sq km, making London 64.04% the size of Cape Town.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Cape Town vs. London uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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