City size comparison

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Shanghai is about 30 times bigger than Antwerp.

Antwerp (map shows its 62 named neighbourhoods; the area covers the whole city) is approximately 208 sq km, while Shanghai is approximately 6,341 sq km, making Shanghai 2,945% larger than Antwerp.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Antwerp vs. Shanghai uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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