City size comparison

compared to

Salem is about 4.7 times smaller than Chicago.

Chicago is approximately 590 sq km, while Salem (map shows its 1 named neighbourhoods; the area covers the whole city) is approximately 127 sq km, making Salem 21.49% the size of Chicago.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Chicago vs. Salem uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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