City size comparison

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Shanghai is about 13 times bigger than Albuquerque.

Albuquerque (map shows its 231 named neighbourhoods; the area covers the whole city) is approximately 485 sq km, while Shanghai is approximately 6,341 sq km, making Shanghai 1,207% larger than Albuquerque.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Albuquerque vs. Shanghai uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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