City size comparison

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Shanghai is about 29 times bigger than Madison.

Madison (map shows its 124 named neighbourhoods; the area covers the whole city) is approximately 217 sq km, while Shanghai is approximately 6,341 sq km, making Shanghai 2,828% larger than Madison.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Madison vs. Shanghai uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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