City size comparison

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Rotterdam is about 2.8 times smaller than Berlin.

Berlin is approximately 891 sq km, while Rotterdam (map shows its 22 named neighbourhoods; the area covers the whole city) is approximately 319 sq km, making Rotterdam 35.84% the size of Berlin.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Berlin vs. Rotterdam uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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