City size comparison

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Santa Barbara is about 4.3 times smaller than Seattle.

Seattle is approximately 217 sq km, while Santa Barbara is approximately 50 sq km, making Santa Barbara 23.23% the size of Seattle.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Seattle vs. Santa Barbara uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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