City size comparison

compared to

San Jose is about 3.4 times smaller than Madrid.

Madrid is approximately 604 sq km, while San Jose is approximately 180 sq km, making San Jose 29.78% the size of Madrid.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Madrid vs. San Jose uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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