City size comparison

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Sao Paulo is about 13 times bigger than San Francisco.

San Francisco (including the city proper only) is approximately 121 sq km, while Sao Paulo is approximately 1,523 sq km, making Sao Paulo 1,159% larger than San Francisco.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of San Francisco vs. Sao Paulo uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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