City size comparison

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Santa Ana is about 8 times smaller than Chicago.

Chicago is approximately 590 sq km, while Santa Ana (map shows its 60 named neighbourhoods; the area covers the whole city) is approximately 71 sq km, making Santa Ana 12.02% the size of Chicago.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Chicago vs. Santa Ana uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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