City size comparison

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Madrid is about 4.1 times smaller than Cape Town.

Cape Town is approximately 2,455 sq km, while Madrid is approximately 604 sq km, making Madrid 24.62% the size of Cape Town.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Cape Town vs. Madrid uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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