City size comparison

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Seattle is about 4.3 times bigger than Santa Barbara.

Santa Barbara is approximately 50 sq km, while Seattle is approximately 217 sq km, making Seattle 331% larger than Santa Barbara.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Santa Barbara vs. Seattle uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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