City size comparison

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Shanghai is about 16 times bigger than Cologne.

Cologne is approximately 405 sq km, while Shanghai is approximately 6,341 sq km, making Shanghai 1,466% larger than Cologne.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Cologne vs. Shanghai uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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