City size comparison

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Rotterdam is around the same size as Philadelphia.

Philadelphia is approximately 348 sq km, while Rotterdam (map shows its 22 named neighbourhoods; the area covers the whole city) is approximately 319 sq km, making Rotterdam 91.79% the size of Philadelphia.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Philadelphia vs. Rotterdam uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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