City size comparison

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Long Beach is about 4.5 times smaller than Chicago.

Chicago is approximately 590 sq km, while Long Beach is approximately 131 sq km, making Long Beach 22.25% the size of Chicago.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Chicago vs. Long Beach uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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