City size comparison

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Madison is about 29 times smaller than Shanghai.

Shanghai is approximately 6,341 sq km, while Madison (map shows its 124 named neighbourhoods; the area covers the whole city) is approximately 217 sq km, making Madison 3.42% the size of Shanghai.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Shanghai vs. Madison uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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