City size comparison

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Nashville is about 2.1 times bigger than Chicago.

Chicago is approximately 590 sq km, while Nashville (map shows its 91 named neighbourhoods; the area covers the whole city) is approximately 1,232 sq km, making Nashville 109% larger than Chicago.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Chicago vs. Nashville uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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