City size comparison

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Shanghai is about 48 times bigger than Long Beach.

Long Beach is approximately 131 sq km, while Shanghai is approximately 6,341 sq km, making Shanghai 4,732% larger than Long Beach.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Long Beach vs. Shanghai uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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