City size comparison

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Lyon is about 2.2 times smaller than Paris.

Paris is approximately 105 sq km, while Lyon is approximately 48 sq km, making Lyon 45.42% the size of Paris.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Paris vs. Lyon uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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